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1 VII, II | his forces, and give him 100,000 florins for his maintenance.
2 I, III | This occurred in the year 1002. After the death of Otho
3 II, I | Nevertheless, in the year 1010, upon the feast of St. Romolo,
4 I, III | Florence, is one. Henry died in 1024, and was succeeded by Conrad
5 I, IV | This occurred in the year 1082. Nevertheless, there shortly
6 I, IV | St. Francis were founded, 1218. Honorius crowned Frederick,
7 II, III | government. This was in the year 1282, and the companies of the
8 III, II | enterprise for the sum of 130,000 florins, which the Florentines
9 I, V | founder of the jubilee in 1300, and fixed that it should
10 II, IV | it. This was in the year 1304, Florence being afflicted
11 I, V | papal court to Avignon in 1305.~
12 II, V | which occurred in the year 1308, the disturbances were appeased,
13 II, V | was crowned in the year 1312. Then, having determined
14 II, VI | trivial accommodation.~In 1325, Castruccio, having taken
15 II, VI | entry into the city in July, 1326, and his coming prevented
16 II, VII | Castruccio, which occurred in 1328, remained in domestic peace
17 II, VII | waters of the Arno having, in 1333, risen twelve feet above
18 II, VIII| which was the 26th July, 1343, they would raise a disturbance
19 II, I | Florence lost 96,000 souls. In 1348, began the first war with
20 I, VI | called king. Being the year 1350, the pope thought that the
21 III, I | avarice or ambition; and from 1356, when this law was made,
22 III, I | time passed from 1366 to 1371, when the Guelphs again
23 I, VI | the papal court at Rome in 1376, after an absence of seventy-one
24 III, VII | by the death of Piero in 1379, had become the inveterate
25 VII, I | He was born in the year 1389, on the day of the saints
26 III, VI | king of Italy by force. In 1391 he commenced a spirited
27 III, VI | remained undisturbed until 1393. During this time, Giovanni
28 III, VII | on the fourth of August, 1397, they came to Florence,
29 III, VII | to 1433, except that in 1412, the Alberti, having crossed
30 IV, III | was therefore concluded in 1428, by which the Florentines
31 IV, IV | own accord, in November, 1429, took possession of Ruoti
32 V, III | against Lucca in April, 1437, and the Florentines, desirous
33 VI, I | was concluded in November, 1441, at which Francesco Barbadico
34 VI, II | increase it. To this end, in 1444 the councils created a new
35 VI, III | the last day of August, 1447. This event greatly afflicted
36 VI, V | twenty-sixth of February, 1450, where he was received with
37 VI, V | the thirtieth of January, 1451, he entered Florence with
38 VI, V | Italy.~The month of May, 1452, having arrived, the Venetians
39 VI, VI | whole of the cold season of 1453, without attempting anything,
40 VI, VI | arrangement on the ninth of April, 1454, by virtue of which, each
41 VI, VII | kingdom; and in October, 1459, he sailed thither from
42 VII, I | tranquilize; but in the year 1464, his illness increased,
43 VII, II | the pontiff occurred in 1465, and Paul II. of Venetian
44 VII, IV | Various external events from 1468 to 1471—Accession of Sixtus
45 Int | born at Florence, May 3, 1469. He was of an old though
46 VII, IV | external events from 1468 to 1471—Accession of Sixtus IV.—
47 VII, VI | now the close of the year 1476, near Christmas, and as
48 VIII, IV | depart on the sixth of March, 1479, having, with every kind
49 VIII, V | Hence, during the whole of 1483, the affairs of the League
50 VIII, V | were concluded in August, 1484. When this became known
51 VIII, VI | king of Spain, in August, 1486, to which the pope consented;
52 V, I | be described from 1434 to 1494, from which it will appear
53 Int | notice of Machiavelli is in 1498 when we find him holding
54 Int | soon recognized, and in 1500 he was sent on a mission
55 Int | He had been married in 1502 to Marietta Corsini, who
56 Int | s release from prison in 1513, fortune seems never again
57 Int | Florence written between 1521 and 1525, and dedicated
58 Int | written between 1521 and 1525, and dedicated to Clement
59 Int | daughter. He died on June 22, 1527, leaving his family in the
60 Int, 0(1)| Staatswissenshaften, Erlangen, 1855, III., 521-91. See also
61 Int, 0(1)| bibliography of Machiavelli up to 1858 is to be found in Mohl,
62 Int, 0(1)| Detmold. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1882, 4 vols. 8vo.
63 Int, 0(1)| by O. Tommasini, Turin, 1883 (unfinished).~The best English
64 Int, 0(1)| suoi tempi, 2d ed. Milan, 1895-97, the best work on the
65 Not | Library edition, published in 1901 by W. Walter Dunne, New
66 II, VI | mustered an army amounting to 20,000 foot and 3,000 horse,
67 III, IV | Lando.~At daybreak on the 21st of July, there did not appear
68 Int | daughter. He died on June 22, 1527, leaving his family
69 VI, I | Sepolcro to the Florentines for 25,000 ducats.~Affairs being
70 II, VI | the people, the other of 250 from the nobility and the
71 II, VIII| next day, which was the 26th July, 1343, they would raise
72 Int, 0(1)| Machiavelli e i suoi tempi, 2d ed. Milan, 1895-97, the
73 II, VI | ones, the one composed of 300 citizens from the class
74 III, V | obtained from the Florentines 40,000 ducats, and promised
75 II, VI | year, drew from the people 400,000 florins, although by
76 IV, IV | Council together, at which 498 citizens assembled, before
77 Int, 0(1)| Staatswissenshaften, Erlangen, 1855, III., 521-91. See also La Vita e gli
78 II, III | arms, and in the country 70,000, while the whole of
79 II, VII | it to the Florentines for 80,000 florins, which, by the
80 II, VII | from disaffection, about 800 German horse mutinied, and
81 II, VIII| Calabria. It was upon the 8th of November, 1342, when
82 Int, 0(1)| Boston, 1882, 4 vols. 8vo.
83 Int, 0(1)| Erlangen, 1855, III., 521-91. See also La Vita e gli
84 I, III | events occurred in the year 931, when Otho, duke of Saxony,
85 II, I | and by which Florence lost 96,000 souls. In 1348, began
86 Int, 0(1)| tempi, 2d ed. Milan, 1895-97, the best work on the subject.
87 I, IV | for the death of Thomas à Becket, archbishop of Canterbury,
88 V, V | his officers advised the abandonment of Verona and Brescia, and
89 VII, V | This answer instead of abating, served only to increase
90 VII, I | Fiesole, the church and abbey of St. Girolamo; and in
91 VIII, I | conspiracy; he held it in abhorrence, and as much as possible,
92 VII, III | was enabled to render them abortive. Diotisalvi Neroni and Niccolo
93 VI, V | and as the city usually abounded with poor, many died of
94 III, I | and each sex and every age abounds with debasing habits, which
95 II, IV | adhered those members of the above-named families who did not take
96 IV, II | could be adopted without an absolute division of the city; and
97 VII, V | tumult in Volterra, and absorbed entire attention both in
98 V, II | can adduce palpable and abundant reasons. No good man will
99 I, III | venerable; and how, from having abused both, they ceased to possess
100 III, II | restrain themselves from abusive behavior, not merely against
101 IV, III | which the Florentines call accatastare, in which in this application
102 IV, I | others were inclined to accede to it, but would set a limit
103 I, III | his friendship. The pope acceding to his request, the other
104 VII, II | general suspicion as would accelerate his ruin, and justify whatever
105 VII, II | all sides. These honors accelerated his ruin; for the duke’s
106 V, IV | make the benefit the more acceptable to the Signory, and see
107 II, I | strong and difficult of access, as soon as the cause of
108 III, VII | which many in the city were accessory. It was resolved by the
109 I, VII | themselves, and so contrived to accommodate things to their own convenience,
110 VI, II | to prevent the duke from accommodating himself at his expense,
111 VIII, II | entreaties, prevailed upon him to accompany them. It is surprising that
112 I, I | ability and perseverance in accomplishing their object.~The first
113 IV, IV | of Rinaldo, or of his own accord, in November, 1429, took
114 VII, IV | The reply of the citizens accorded with the time and circumstances,
115 VII, V | proverb, “Meglio un magro accordo che una grassa vittoria.”2
116 II, VII | war, loss of money, and accumulation of disgrace, they were compelled
117 VII, VI | he was well versed: “Mors acerba, fama perpetua, stabit vetus
118 IV, V | would admit, to soothe the acerbity of his feelings, and confided
119 VIII, IV | his army, under the Pasha Achmet, approached Velona, and,
120 VII, IV | enterprises. Bernardo had many acquaintances at Prato, and still more
121 IV, VII | Agnolo Acciajuoli to Cosmo, acquainting him with the disposition
122 IV, III | III~Giovanni de’ Medici acquires the favor of the people—
123 II, III | he was acquitted. This acquittal displeased the people so
124 II, III | of condemning him, he was acquitted. This acquittal displeased
125 II, III | them than they felt the acrimonious spirit with which it was
126 | across
127 VIII, V | covered with enemies. But acting with courage and resolution,
128 I, VII | Torello, Antonia dal Ponte ad Era, and many others. With
129 II, I | using that trite and common adage, Cosa fatta capo ha. Thereupon,
130 VII, I | of his sayings might be adduced, but we shall omit them
131 VIII, IV | share his fortune; for an adherent of the pope will have a
132 Int | method has been censured for adhering at times too closely to
133 V, VI | patriarch upon the bridge, which adjoined the building, and might
134 IV, III | in Lombardy, where it was admirably conducted; for in a few
135 IV, III | surpass it, and which we admire the more from the rarity
136 IV, III | show how greatly courage is admired even in enemies, and how
137 VIII, VII | honored. He was a great admirer of excellence in the arts,
138 II, VI | gates of Florence to gain admittance into the city before the
139 VIII, IV | to civil contentions by admitting them to the government.
140 III, I | not only those to whom the admonition was applicable, but any
141 I, V | changed their mode of living. Adolpho of Saxony succeeded to the
142 V, II | are the Fregosa and the Adorna, from whom arise the dissensions
143 VII, VI | injuries they had suffered, and adroitly intimated, that if Carlo
144 I, VII | he accused Beatrice of adultery and caused her to be put
145 VIII, III | for Count Carlo made rapid advances in the Perugino, and Niccolo
146 II, II | by Farinata degli Uberti—Adventures of the Guelphs of Florence—
147 VIII, III | view of driving out his adversary and withdrawing it from
148 VIII, I | originated; for Lorenzo’s advisers pointed out to him how dangerous
149 VI, VII | Piccolomini, and by name Æneas, succeeded to the pontificate.
150 VIII, VI | evident how greatly humanity, affability, and condescension influence
151 III, VI | which this day cease to affect me, and commence with you,
152 V, III | overcharged with complaints, affecting to show that since God and
153 II, I | excitement of the multitude, by affirming their associates to be good
154 V, II | What greater disease can afflict a republic than slavery?
155 VI, I | rejoice in a victory that afflicts his subjects. The victories
156 II, IV | confusion with an interdict—New affray between the Cerchi and the
157 VIII, I | unable to endure so many affronts, began to devise some means
158 I, I | Stilicho, and Gildo to the African. Each of these, after the
159 I, III | being made emperor, the pope Agapito, begged that he would come
160 I, VI | their women, children, and aged persons, leaving the youth
161 VI, II | and the count having been aggrandized by the assistance of the
162 II, VII | the use of any bitter or aggravating expressions, blamed their
163 IV, III | consider his property in the aggregate, which the Florentines call
164 V, III | could not prevent their aggressions. You know, that without
165 VIII, II | myself; but I feel more aggrieved by the injuries committed,
166 VII, II | upon their ensigns.~In this agitated state of the city, some,
167 VII, V | accomplished. They began by agitating the question in their councils,
168 II, I | Vecchietti, Tosinghi, Arrigucci, Agli, Sizi, Adimari, Visdomini,
169 II, I | Pigli, Barucci, Cattani, Agolanti, Brunelleschi, Caponsacchi,
170 VI, III | taken before the count, was agonized with terror; and, as is
171 I, VI | and took prisoner, John Agut, an Englishman, who with
172 VI, III | Siennese. The Florentines, aided by the season, used the
173 VI, IV | means than to refrain from aiding the count, and continuing
174 IV, V | to the count, Boccacino Alamanni, his friend, to frustrate
175 III, II | drawing futile.~Salvestro Alammano de’ Medici was therefore
176 VI, IV | would satisfy thy ambition. Alas! those who grasp at all
177 I, IV | anti-pope took refuge in Mount Albano, where he shortly afterward
178 IV, VI | floor, and is called the Alberghettino, in which Cosmo was confined,
179 I, III | against the Huns, appointed Alberic, duke of Tuscany, their
180 III, VII | rebels, accused Andrea and Alberto degli Alberti of such practices.
181 VII, III | Ferrara was upon the river Albo, at the head of a considerable
182 II, VIII| Bordini, Rucellai, and Aldobrandini. It was the intention of
183 III, I | were continually on the alert to oppose each other’s laws,
184 I, VII | become lord of Vercelli, Alessandria, Novara, and Tortona, and
185 VIII, VII | Piero, his eldest son, to Alfonsina, daughter of the Cavaliere
186 I, III | under Berengarius III. and Alfred his son; Tuscany and Romagna
187 V, II | the town of San Giovanni alla Vena. This enterprise, though
188 VII, I | Giovanni chose Corneglia degli Allesandri, and for Piero, Lucrezia
189 VII, IV | poverty being unable to alleviate the sorrows of exile, while
190 III, I | disunited; and this, if it be allowable to compare small things
191 I, V | vespers—The Emperor Rodolph allows many cities to purchase
192 IV, IV | compassionate; not only bestowing alms on those who asked them,
193 VI, VI | auxiliary, and therefore kept aloof, and would not disclose
194 IV, V | themselves on the ground, crying aloud, and praying that their
195 V, VI | relieved, except from the Alpine regions, in the direction
196 VIII, II | Riario remained close to the altar, where he was with difficulty
197 V, III | require him, but would not alter the tenor of his engagement;
198 II, I | seemed desirable to make an alteration in this respect, as well
199 III, VI | establishment in 1381, till the alterations now made, had continued
200 II, I | the city; and after some altercation between the nobility and
201 IV, II | and wise citizen to avoid altering the institutions to which
202 VI, III | submit themselves; and either alternative would deprive him of the
203 VII, I | Cosmo had the choice of two alternatives, either forcibly to assume
204 VIII, VI | and induced the princes of Altimura, Salerno, and Bisignano
205 VI, VI | tutta onora,~Pensoso piu d’altrui, che di se stesso.”~Stefano,
206 VII, V | Volterra had discovered an alum-mine in their district, and being
207 VII, V | labor; and decided that the alum-pit was the rightful property
208 I, II | descending to Atalaric, son of Amalasontha, his daughter, and the malice
209 I, VII | Novara, and Tortona, and had amassed great riches, finding his
210 VIII, VII | down, to the terror and amazement of everyone. The citizens
211 III, IV | force. This deputation, with amazing audacity and surpassing
212 VII, VI | turning to a statue of St. Ambrose, said, “O patron of our
213 III, II | insolence of the powerful, and ameliorate those laws by the influence
214 IV, VI | of our republic would be ameliorated; for if we relieve her from
215 IV, III | them, preparatory to their amelioration. That they might be equalized
216 VII, I | other crimes which made them amenable to the laws, found a safe
217 III, III | order to offend, but to amend you. Let others tell you
218 VIII, II | family, when among friends, amidst our own relatives, nay,
219 II, III | them to abide in perfect amity together. This ungenial
220 VIII, IV | directions, leaving their ammunition, carriages, and artillery
221 VII, II | as he had ordered those amounts to be recalled, the citizens,
222 V, II | be easily convinced. The amplest justice is on your side;
223 III, VI | displeasure, they contrived to amuse the multitude with promises,
224 IV, VII | take supper with him, an amusing and facetious person, whose
225 VIII, II | pontiff excommunicated and anathematized them. Finding themselves
226 I, I | Spain called Betica (now Andalusia), being pressed by the Visigoths,
227 I, I | thus become very powerful, Andaric, king of the Zepidi, and
228 II, V | their forces, the Count d’Andria, usually called Count Novello,
229 III, I | among us), are repeated anew in our ears.~“It seems almost
230 I, I | France and Burgundy—The Huns— Angles give the name to England—
231 I, I | occupied Gaul, called the Angli, a people of Germany, to
232 VI, IV | willingly attributed to their angry feelings all the serious
233 VII, V | commands us to abstain from animal food, the Milanese, without
234 V, II | fear, if they were still animated by the valor of former times.
235 VI, II | short time; and his wife, Annalena, thus deprived of both husband
236 I, VII | introduces the practice of Annates—Disturbance in Lombardy—
237 VI, VII | they would endeavor to annex his own dominions; which
238 VII, II | east, led by the star which announced the nativity of Christ;
239 VII, V | recommended them to pay an annual sum by way of acknowledgment
240 I, IV | proper; and that he should annul whatever acts had been passed
241 III, V | Filippo Strozzi, and Giovanni Anselmi, the whole of whom, except
242 VI, VII | Florentines, and themselves to be answerable for the event of the war;
243 VI, IV | this point, they PUBLICLY answered the envoys, that their engagements
244 II, VII | the Peruzzi, Acciajuoli, Antellesi, and Buonaccorsi, who, being
245 I, VII | papacy. Gregory, one of the anti-popes, sent his renunciation;
246 II, VI | exiles, and the latter, anticipating the fact, determined to
247 VII, IV | parties. Feasts, dancing, and antique representations occupied
248 VIII, VI | death Jacopo Coppola and Antonello d’Aversa and their sons,
249 I, VII | Tolentino, Guido Torello, Antonia dal Ponte ad Era, and many
250 I, IV | went into France, and at Anvers, having drawn together a
251 II, IV | designing by a suitable apology to remove all cause of further
252 VII, V | the Holy Ghost among the apostles; and in consequence of the
253 VIII, III | their jurisdiction, and appealed against the injuries suffered
254 I, IV | should have the power of appealing to Rome when they thought
255 VIII, IV | were subtle interpreters of appearances, but by the principal members
256 VI, IV | his enterprise; therefore, appearing openly to accept the proposal
257 I, III | account of his unseemly appellation, he took the name of Sergius,
258 II, I | princes, who have lost all appetite for true glory, and of republics
259 II, IV | of the public money, of applying it to their private uses,
260 II, VI | Charles duke of Cambria, who appoints the duke of Athens for his
261 III, I | qualities, they could not appreciate them, and Florence became
262 VII, IV | and virtue were not duly appreciated by his country, principally
263 VI, II | to send him troops, but apprised him of the difficulties
264 I, II | less obedient, and more apt to quarrel among themselves;
265 VII, IV | conducted themselves in such an arbitrary manner, that it seemed as
266 I, VI | were generally chosen to arbitrate in controversies between
267 V, V | which the city wall is the arc. The space comprehended
268 I, II | that the Po, the Garda, the Archipelago, are names quite different
269 VIII, VII | He took great delight in architecture, music, and poetry, many
270 VII, VI | withdrawn to an apartment of the archpriest, who was a friend of theirs,
271 IV, VI | constantly reproach us, and ardently desire to see him again
272 II, I | Donati, Passi, della Bella, Ardinghi, Tedaldi, Cerchi. Of the
273 IV, VII | chance of success; while the ardor of the citizens abated,
274 II, VIII| great benefits upon the Aretini and other subjects of the
275 VIII, V | duke and the marquis at Argenta, they approached Ferrara
276 VII, I | learned men. He brought Argiripolo, a Greek by birth, and one
277 V, VI | to halt in these parts, arguing that he might divide his
278 I, II | suffered more horrors from the Arian sect, whose doctrines were
279 V, VI | take towns and leave the armament entire, usually allowed
280 III, I | Hence arose those changes in armorial bearings, and in the titles
281 II, I | at first called the Villa Arnina. After this occurred the
282 I, III | pope and the Romans, and Arnolfo, not knowing where to seek
283 I, III | German emperor being called Arnolfus. Nor did the Carlovingian
284 IV, II | country and his honor must arouse himself, and call to mind
285 IV, VI | Signory the whole city was aroused. Every case brought before
286 V, VII | led his forces in battle array toward Anghiari, and had
287 VI, III | assistance of Fazio and Arrigo de’ Conti, of the Gherardesca,
288 VIII, IV | Serezana—Lorenzo de’ Medici arrives at Naples—Peace concluded
289 I, III | themselves cardinals, and arrogated so great authority, that
290 II, I | missiles, and from below by arrows. They fought for three hours;
291 III, II | opprobrious language; and an artificer seized Carlo Strozzi by
292 II, I | of the companies of the artisans.~Both sides being thus arranged
293 III, IV | the rabble at his heels, ascended the staircase, and, having
294 VI, VII | and huge bodies sometimes ascending toward heaven, and sometimes
295 IV, V | about Lucca—Pagolo Guinigi asks assistance of the duke of
296 VI, I | Agnolo Acciajuoli. Peschiera, Asola, and Lonato, castles in
297 IV, II | the memory of his father, aspired to the first offices in
298 VIII, II | others are safe, we are assassinated; where parricides and assassins
299 VII, III | the magistrates, which was assassination of Piero, who lay sick at
300 VII, I | piazza, and compelled them to assent to a measure to which he
301 I, III | request, the other princes assented. Desiderius kept faith at
302 VI, II | should determine. They, assenting to the request of the Bolognese,
303 VI, VI | himself for the truth of his assertions; but being unable, from
304 VII, II | property, liabilities, and assets, to be placed in Diotisalvi’
305 Int | political experience, and an assiduous study of the ancients rendered
306 VI, IV | interest; and, therefore, in assigning to each their portion of
307 III, IV | much violence, by way of associating it with something laudable,
308 VIII, II | majesty of this government, by assuming that on our account you
309 VI, III | Pope Nicholas, after his assumption of the pontificate, sought
310 VI, VI | son as an hostage. These assurances, and the proposal with which
311 V, V | of the great, would most assuredly not oppose him, and pointed
312 IV, IV | Lucchese war —War with Lucca—Astore Gianni and Rinaldo degli
313 I, V | Furli, Guido Bonatto, an astrologer, contrived that at an appointed
314 V, I | ambassadors to the senate by the Athenians; for perceiving with what
315 Int | We must bear in mind the atmosphere of craft, hypocrisy, and
316 VIII, IV | they were desirous to make atonement, and trusted in his clemency,
317 IV, VI | would be a party to such an atrocious act. I do not imagine your
318 IV, V | children to their fathers. The atrocity of the affair having already
319 VIII, I | happens), almost always attains to a greater degree of power,
320 IV, VII | messenger to request their attendance and to reprove their delay.
321 I, VII | Pergola, Lorenzo di Micheletto Attenduli, il Tartaglia, Giacopaccio,
322 V, VI | other remedy; that whoever attentively considered these things
323 VIII, VI | inhabitants of Pietra Santa, attracted by the rich prize took possession
324 VIII, IV | either from his personal attractions, or some secret influence,
325 VI, VII | years. John’s failure was attributable to negligence; for victory
326 VIII, II | of injuring us. If they attribute public grievances to ourselves (
327 IV, VII | reproaches Palla made no reply audible to those around, but, muttering
328 V, IV | increase of power and territory augments that animosity and envy,
329 VIII, VII | friar of the order of St. Augustine, and an excellent preacher,
330 IV, II | so that whoever was the author of the proposition, he would
331 III, VII | Gonfalonier of Justice with more authoritative majesty, they ordered that
332 II, IV | he thought proper.~Thus authorized, Charles armed all his friends
333 VIII, VI | particularly because the autumnal air had been so unhealthy
334 VI, VI | principal, but only ranked as an auxiliary, and therefore kept aloof,
335 VIII, VI | Coppola and Antonello d’Aversa and their sons, for having,
336 V, III | the Florentines would be averted. To the Venetians, on the
337 VII, I | an opportunity either of averting them, or preventing their
338 I, I | Maximus being dead, elected Avitus, a Roman, as his successor.
339 IV, VII | tyranny for the sake of avoiding imaginary dangers from the
340 VIII, III | expressed his intention of awaiting their arrival, withdrew
341 V, V | people to arms. The citizens awaking in the utmost confusion,
342 IV, V | customary at Florence to award triumphs for success, they
343 I, VI | referred to the Venetians, they awarded Brescia and Bergamo to the
344 I, VI | restrained him, and for awhile preserved alive the interests
345 VIII, IV | found themselves in a very awkward predicament, being destitute
346 I, VI | him remained Galeazzo and Azzo; and, after these, Luchino
347 II, VIII| while one party went in bacchanalian procession through the city,
348 V, V | upon the plain, with their backs against the city walls,
349 II, IV | nor were the Cerchi at all backward to do the same, and not
350 Int | affairs of state. It was Lord Bacon, I believe, who said that
351 V, V | he had taken, that it was badly guarded, and might be very
352 II, VI | putting their names into a bag or purse, and drawing them
353 II, VIII| authority. His rectors were Baglione da Perugia and Guglielmo
354 VIII, VII | city, he kept in pay the Baglioni, at Perugia, and the Vitelli,
355 VI, VII | churches of St. Martin, at Bagnolo, and Santa Maria della Pace,
356 VI, VII | powerful fleet, and landed at Baia; whence he proceeded to
357 VII, I | service of God as to find the balance in his own favor, intimating
358 VIII, VII | Frescobaldi, and a similar one by Baldinetto da Pistoja, at his villa;
359 IV, VII | that of the city.~Mariotto Baldovinetti, one of the assembly, was
360 III, VII | were banished, and a new ballot for the offices of government
361 III, II | and upon redrawing, as the ballot-boxes would be nearly empty, chance
362 III, VI | and four others, to form a ballot-purse of select citizens, from
363 III, III | done. You wished that the ballotings should be burned, and a
364 III, III | Ghibelline; and further, that new ballots of the Guelphic party should
365 VI, II | father-in-law, and above all, the bane which he feared would be
366 V, V | enemies an opportunity of banishing him. In consequence of this,
367 V, IV | pontiff, he resolved to banter him by his words as well
368 V, II | festival of St. John the Baptist being come, when Arismeno,
369 VI, I | 1441, at which Francesco Barbadico and Pagolo Trono were present
370 I, II | of his character, all the barbarian kings who occupied the empire;
371 II, VIII| tongue cut out with such barbarous cruelty as to cause his
372 III, IV | combers and dyers, one for the barbers, doublet-makers, tailors,
373 V, V | therefore encamped before Bardolino, a fortress situated upon
374 III, IV | a wool comber. This man, barefoot, with scarcely anything
375 I, IV | come into Italy, and fall barefooted upon his knees before the
376 III, VII | and he was banished to Barletta. Alamanno and Antonio de’
377 III, IV | behind the church of St. Barnabas. Their number exceeded six
378 I, VI | imitation of Rienzi, Francesco Baroncegli seized upon the tribunate
379 VI, II | with them the sons of Piero Baroncelli, the whole of the Seragli,
380 II, I | Palermini, Migliorelli, Pigli, Barucci, Cattani, Agolanti, Brunelleschi,
381 VI, III | calling him “bastard,” and “base-born.” Being made prisoner, he
382 Int | laid down the principles, based upon his study and wide
383 IV, I | having good laws for its basis, and good regulations for
384 VIII, V | the emperor to assemble at Basle; and by means of the imperial
385 VI, III | the count, calling him “bastard,” and “base-born.” Being
386 I, II | thirst as he came from the bath. Having drunk half of it,
387 I, IV | clearness of its waters, bathed therein, took cold, and
388 VIII, VI | was compelled to go the baths for relief.~The more important
389 II, V | Florence Count Guido da Battifolle. The king complied; and
390 V, VII | evolutions of cavalry or a battlefield. As the Signory had heard
391 VI, VII | only threw down some of the battlements and the chimneys of a few
392 VII, I | to play with a string of beads.” These words gave occasion
393 II, VIII| and he had a long, thin beard. He was thus in every respect
394 IV, VI | thee in this opinion had beards of silver instead of gold,
395 III, IV | Gonfalon of Justice from the bearer, and under the shadow of
396 II, VI | three Pennonieri (pennon bearers) were added, so that if
397 III, I | those changes in armorial bearings, and in the titles of families,
398 IV, V | deadly pest, a more savage beast, a more horrid monster never
399 VI, VII | edifices. A muleteer and his beasts were driven from the road
400 II, VIII| rectors for the country, who beat and plundered the inhabitants.
401 I, IV | for the death of Thomas à Becket, archbishop of Canterbury,
402 VII, VI | fate awaited him as had befallen Niccolo Piccinino. However,
403 I, I | Ravenna. The misfortunes which befell the western empire caused
404 I, VI | understand what were their beginnings, and the causes which so
405 IV, IV | should give up the idea, and behave toward the tyrant in such
406 II, IV | punished by them; and it behooved Veri to save himself by
407 IV, V | the country of Pisa except Beintina, Calcinaja, Livorno, and
408 Int | and Clizia, and his novel Belfagor.~After the downfall of the
409 V, I | among whom were Zanobi dei Belfratelli and Cosmo Barbadori, passing
410 V, I | subjects, than to either of the belligerents. At length, by the intervention
411 VII, VI | him two wounds, one in the belly, the other in the throat.
412 IV, IV | endeavor to engross more than belongs to them; for they thus usually
413 II, VIII| new market, mounted upon a bench, and begged that those who
414 VI, VII | lofty trees which could not bend beneath its influence, were
415 VIII, IV | formula of agreement and benediction was then read; and, in addition
416 IV, VII | consent he was hailed as the benefactor of the people, and the FATHER
417 III, VI | countrymen. The neglect of their benefactors is an error into which princes
418 I, VII | everyone, upon vacating a benefice, should pay a year’s value
419 VIII, II | kindness, liberality, and beneficence, to do good to all; and
420 III, III | those who were in hopes of benefiting by these disorders persuaded
421 III, I | certainly attained by the benign influence of the laws, than
422 IV, II | would be more resolutely bent on injuring him than the
423 II, VII | Naddo Rucellai, Giovanni di Bernadino de’ Medici, and Rosso di
424 III, VII | Strozzi; Bindo Altoviti, Bernado Adimari, and many others
425 VI, III | commissaries, Neri di Gino and Bernardetto de’ Medici, that they broke
426 II, V | dei Pazzi, Geri Spini, and Berto Brunelleschi. These, with
427 I, V | predecessors, and the pope made Bertoldo Orsino duke of Romagna.
428 II, VIII| such as sought his ruin. Bertone Cini, having ventured to
429 III, VI | disturbance, they induced Bese Magalotti, his relative
430 VIII, VI | city and themselves to him, beseeching that he would defend them
431 VI, III | of the Milanese—The count besieges Caravaggio—The Venetians
432 V, VII | the ducal troops who were besieging Brescia, being informed
433 VI, I | services he might at last betake himself to repose. Nor did
434 III, VII | known, and whither they had betaken themselves, their fears
435 IV, IV | uninfringed on either side, they bethought themselves in a condition
436 I, I | that part of Spain called Betica (now Andalusia), being pressed
437 II, VII | abandoned the bridges, and betook themselves to the street
438 VI, VI | whom he had endeavored to betray. This affair was considered
439 VIII, I | much as possible, without betraying his kinsmen, endeavored
440 II, IV | it with marriages and new betrothals. But wishing that the Bianchi
441 II, I | happened that the cavalier betrothed himself to a maiden of the
442 Int, 0(1)| subject. The most complete bibliography of Machiavelli up to 1858
443 III, VII | Scali; two of the Strozzi; Bindo Altoviti, Bernado Adimari,
444 VII, I | have rather imitated the biographies of princes than general
445 VIII, VI | of Altimura, Salerno, and Bisignano to take arms against him.
446 II, VII | but without the use of any bitter or aggravating expressions,
447 VI, IV | our just complaints will blacken thy character throughout
448 I, I | had murdered his brother Bleda; and having thus become
449 Int | Machiavelli’s life was not without blemish—few lives are. We must bear
450 VIII, IV | after the example of the blessed Redeemer, would receive
451 II, IV | the youth’s hand upon a block used for cutting meat upon,
452 V, V | places which kept Brescia in blockade. He therefore encamped before
453 VIII, II | and after dealing many blows, effected only a slight
454 IV, VII | than to human ignorance and blunders. In this juncture of affairs,
455 IV, V | had sent to the count, Boccacino Alamanni, his friend, to
456 Int | participation in the conspiracy of Boccoli and Capponi, he was imprisoned
457 VIII, VII | upon the Venetians, and Boccolino of Osimo, in the Marca,
458 I, II | the death of Symmachus and Boethius, men of great holiness,
459 VII, I | the hands of Luca Pitti, a bold-spirited man, Cosmo determined to
460 VI, VI | assistance, attacked Jacopo, near Bolsena, and though Ventimiglia
461 I, V | encamped at Furli, Guido Bonatto, an astrologer, contrived
462 III, I | private individuals, is a bond of union. And as the knowledge
463 IV, V | Salvestro Trento and Leonardo Bonvisi to Milan, to request assistance
464 Int | divided into twenty-six books, is the best known of all
465 II, VIII| and with him the Medici, Bordini, Rucellai, and Aldobrandini.
466 II, V | safety, and with Gherardo Bordoni, and some of his bravest
467 VIII, VII | considerable force, and Antonio Boscoli, the Florentine commissary,
468 IV, I | vengeance remained pent in their bosoms, ungratified and unquenched.
469 Int, 0(1)| Detmold. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1882, 4 vols. 8vo.
470 VII, VI | Cecco Simonetta, Giovanni Botti, and Francesco Lucani, all
471 III, V | continued, also bring him to the bottom. This interpretation was
472 I, IV | Eustace, and Baldwin of Bouillon, counts of Boulogne, and
473 I, IV | Baldwin of Bouillon, counts of Boulogne, and Peter, a hermit celebrated
474 V, III | for the ambition of men is boundless, and if he were now paid
475 III, V | citizens, sent him a silver bowl full of sweetmeats, among
476 II, II | kind of arms they used, the bowmen being under one ensign,
477 V, VII | assail them with their cross bows, and prevent them from wounding
478 VI, III | Micheletto, approached within two bowshots of the enemy’s camp, and
479 V, V | that may be compared to a bowstring, of which the city wall
480 I, III | being lord of Austria and Brabant, had become king of France;
481 V, I | Italy, the Sforzesca and the Braccesca. The leader of the former
482 II, V | charge was made before Piero Branca, captain of the people,
483 VI, VII | not only stripped of their branches but borne to a great distance
484 I, III | Germany; the princes of Brandenburg, Palatine, and Saxony, and
485 VI, V | Italy he could not find braver or more faithful friends,
486 II, V | Bordoni, and some of his bravest and most trusted friends,
487 IV, VI | only a small quantity of bread, Federigo, observing his
488 VI, VII | impenetrable darkness, covering a breadth of about two miles in the
489 I, VII | possessed no state) being bred to arms from their infancy,
490 I, II | towns and castles which for brevity we omit. Those which became
491 VI, I | re-equip them, and the other to bribe them; the vanquished could
492 VIII, IV | were first received, this brief repose awakened the Florentines
493 VIII, IV | him with a halo of majesty brighter than before. He was received
494 I, I | barbarians. Nor was the island of Britain, which is now called England,
495 I, I | secure from them; for the Britons, being apprehensive of those
496 III, I | produced a more copious brood than any other; for not
497 II, IV | to the house of his own brotherhood, where he had the best opportunity
498 II, IV | greatest indignity to his brutal act, he ordered his servants
499 IV, V | mothers, gave them up to the brutality of his soldiery. If by any
500 IV, V | attempt went to Borgo a Buggiano which he took, and burned
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