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501 VII, I | citizens, though they did not build like him, were no less violent
502 VII, III | commenced were abandoned by the builders; the benefits that had been
503 I, V | establish in Italy a firm bulwark against the church, without
504 II, VII | Acciajuoli, Antellesi, and Buonaccorsi, who, being overwhelmed
505 II, V | King Robert, having reached Buonconvento, he died.~Shortly after
506 II, VI | citizens whom they called Buonomini, or good men, without whose
507 VIII, I | the daughter of Giovanni Buonromei, a very wealthy man, whose
508 II, I | and instead of the twelve Buonuomini, or good men, created eight
509 V, I | and victory peace, the buoyant vigor of the martial mind
510 IV, III | republic should be less burdened by her, it being enough
511 III, III | apprehension of punishment for the burnings and robberies they had committed,
512 II, VIII| making him sovereign, and the butchers, with others, the lowest
513 I, IV | created at Rome, and elected Cadolo of Parma anti-pope; and
514 VII, IV | Acciajuoli to come secretly to Cafaggiolo, and discussed with him
515 I, I | Cimbrians, who were conquered by Caius Marius, was the Visigoths—
516 IV, V | of Pisa except Beintina, Calcinaja, Livorno, and Librafatta;
517 VII, III | war upon their country, calculating, that in case of an attack,
518 VI, III | their own position at the Caldane, a place where it would
519 III, VII | Market, and at the end of the Calimala slew another. Pursuing their
520 IV, VI | with all their might to calumniate them; and when any unfavorable
521 II, VIII| rather than be led like calves to the slaughter. In a very
522 III, V | his accused Giovanni di Cambio of practices against the
523 II, VI | city to Charles duke of Cambria, who appoints the duke of
524 VI, IV | taken by him during the late campaigns, and content himself with
525 II, III | complete victory over them at Campaldino. The city being increased
526 IV, V | established themselves at Campannole, which seemed to the commissaries
527 VII, V | scarcely passed the fortress of Campi, when he was met by a messenger
528 I, VI | office of chancellor at Campidoglio, drove the senators from
529 IV, I | the Dogiate of Tommaso da Campo Fregoso. He did not think
530 V, IV | himself and his forces to Camurata, a place between Furli and
531 VIII, II | them being shut up in the cancelleria into which they had gone,
532 II, IV | Cancellieri were descended from a Cancelliere who had had two wives, of
533 II, VI | magistrates, from the number of candidates for office. And not being
534 Int | them? He merely had the candor and courage to write down
535 I, VII | fortress of Pavia. But Fazino Cane, who in the affairs of Lombardy
536 VI, II | cause the return of the Cannecshi, and the ruin both of their
537 VIII, VI | Marciano was killed by a cannon shot. This success filled
538 VIII, I | college of Pisa, to study canon law, and while there, had
539 II, VIII| the convent of the Minor Canons of St. Croce, and in order
540 VI, IV | have been produced. Thou canst not have forgotten thy wretched
541 I, IV | à Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, although public report
542 VI, VI | Sopra il Monte Tarpejo canzon vedra,~Un cavalier, ch’
543 V, I | guard authority to proceed capitally, and provided that the exiles,
544 V, VII | pressing him, he offered to capitulate, and obtained reasonable
545 V, IV | after the attack, the place capitulated. He then took Bologna, Imola,
546 II, I | common adage, Cosa fatta capo ha. Thereupon, they appointed
547 II, IV | extended to those of the Capoinsacchi, and consumed them, with
548 II, I | Agolanti, Brunelleschi, Caponsacchi, Elisei, Abati, Tidaldini,
549 II, I | Scolari, Guidi, Galli, Cappiardi, Lamberti, Soldanieri, Cipriani,
550 V, VI | his people between Chiusi, Caprese, and the Pieve, render himself
551 I, II | daughter of Cunimund, among the captives, took her to wife, and made
552 VII, I | of trouble, as his exile, captivity, and personal danger fully
553 I, IV | the former finished his career. Frederick being dead, the
554 VIII, II | business, he was particularly careful to return to its owners.
555 V, II | all her citizens, which cares with equal affection for
556 V, II | be compelled to love and caress, nay even to obey those
557 III, VII | Girolami, Cristofano di Carlone, and two others of the lowest
558 I, III | called Arnolfus. Nor did the Carlovingian family lose the empire only;
559 I, VII | noticed among the latter were Carmignola, Francesco Sforza, Niccolo
560 VIII, VII | made to murder him in the Carmine, by Batista Frescobaldi,
561 V, I | philosophers, Diogenes and Carneades, were sent ambassadors to
562 I, VI | Filippo Gonzao of Mantua, the Carrara, and those of Este. Upon
563 VI, III | should march to the siege of Carravaggio, hoping that Lodi would
564 I, VII | the hands of Francesco de Carrera, lord of Padua, by whose
565 VIII, III | Romans, by Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, the papal forces
566 II, I | Romans, having conquered the Carthaginians, rendered Italy secure from
567 VI, II | s forces, was routed at Casale, by Micheletto and the Venetian
568 VI, II | Bartolommeo Fortini, Francesco Castellani, and many others. By these
569 IV, III | Florentines in Romagna, except Castracaro and Modigliano; partly from
570 VII, IV | force, and all assembled at Castrocaro, a fortress belonging to
571 V, II | one that favors a few, and casts from her the great mass
572 V, III | hope, except in God and the casualties which time might produce,
573 II, V | and having besieged Monte Cataini, the Florentines found it
574 II, V | made prisoner by a party of Catalan horse, in the service of
575 I, V | was taken by corsairs of Catalonia and put to the oar; but
576 V, VI | take, though Niccolo, with catapults and other engines, assailed
577 V, V | hands; therefore, to avoid a catastrophe which might be regarded
578 VII, II | with citizens, anxious to catch a glimpse of him, while
579 I, II | the heretic sects with the Catholics, served in many ways to
580 V, I | well regulated community. Cato was aware of this when the
581 II, I | Migliorelli, Pigli, Barucci, Cattani, Agolanti, Brunelleschi,
582 VI, IV | them. Still this want of caution in us does not excuse the
583 VI, VI | as were available, more cautiously corresponded with his friends,
584 VI, IV | so, and with pretexts or caviling to put it off. To give the
585 VI, V | therefore feared that these cavils were produced by some latent
586 I, VII | Tartaglia, Giacopaccio, Cecolini da Perugia, Niccolo da Tolentino,
587 V, VII | carry away, on condition of ceding his territories and government
588 V, VII | to gain admission to the celestial country, having lost the
589 I, IV | Tancred should be king. Celestine III., the then pope, anxious
590 I, V | Murrone, who took the name of Celestino; but, being a hermit and
591 VIII, VI | arms they killed Antonio Cencinello, commissary for the king,
592 VIII, I | government became so entirely centred in the Medici, and they
593 Int | Machiavelli, especially in the two centuries following his death. But
594 I, VI | at the conclusion of each century, might be renewed at the
595 V, III | the procession. The usual ceremonies of consecration having been
596 I, IV | Frederick, being encamped at Cerma, Alexander complained to
597 II, III | Altoviti, Peruzzi, and Cerretani. Having settled the government,
598 VIII, IV | itself; sacked Vico and Certaldo, and after these conquests
599 V, VII | direction toward the plain of Certomondo, in the other upon the hill
600 II, VII | at Montechiaro upon the Ceruglio; and when the emperor had
601 VI, VI | canzon vedra,~Un cavalier, ch’ Italia tutta onora,~Pensoso
602 III, II | Disturbances in Florence.~The papal chair was occupied by Gregory
603 VIII, VII | Cristofero Landini, and Demetrius Chalcondylas, a Greek, may afford sufficient
604 Int | has since found many able champions and the tide has turned.
605 IV, III | service of the Signory, two chancellors, Ser Martino and Ser Pagolo.
606 VIII, IV | Venetians, and on account of its changeable and unsettled state they
607 VI, VII | resolved into their ancient chaos. Wherever this awful tempest
608 Int | random, let us take Book I., Chap. XV.: “Public affairs are
609 VII, VI | priest who officiated in the chapel had gone to St. Stephen’
610 VII, IV | that the entire evil was chargeable upon the Duke Galeazzo,
611 VII, I | building churches, and in charitable purposes, he sometimes complained
612 VIII, II | balanced by his numerous charities, for he relieved many in
613 Int | reader that is the greatest charm of the History. Of the other
614 II, VIII| had never tasted of its charms, and love it only from remembrance
615 VII, VI | seemed insecure; during the chase, uncertain and dangerous;
616 III, III | punished; small crimes are chastised, but great and serious ones
617 IV, VII | received his sentence with a cheerful look, assuring the Signory
618 III, V | signors, and said “He had cheerfully undertaken the office to
619 VIII, VII | considers this gravity and cheerfulness, will find united in him
620 VII, VI | princes; that the former cherish virtue, while the latter
621 IV, IV | anticipations of the former are cherished as facts, even while the
622 VIII, III | hatred which that city always cherishes against the Florentines
623 II, I | Sacchetti, Manieri, Lucardesi, Chiaramontesi, Compiobbesi, Cavalcanti,
624 Int | Machiavelli is concerned chiefly with the government of a
625 VI, II | married, and had only one child, a boy, who survived him
626 VI, II | Cascese. Antonio was rich, childless, and a friend of Neri, to
627 VI, VII | the battlements and the chimneys of a few houses; but in
628 VIII, VII | in Italy. For Mariano da Chinazano, a friar of the order of
629 IV, V | Cennami and Giovanni da Chivizzano. The count resided upon
630 VII, II | commonly led by whoever chooses to excite them. To divert
631 IV, I | estimation, neither of them choosing to be subject either to
632 II, IV | ordered his servants to chop off the youth’s hand upon
633 VII, VI | close of the year 1476, near Christmas, and as it was customary
634 Int | times too closely to the chroniclers like Villani, Cambi, and
635 VI, I | field, and encamped before Cignano, a fortress twelve miles
636 I, I | invaded the empire after the Cimbrians, who were conquered by Caius
637 II, VIII| sought his ruin. Bertone Cini, having ventured to speak
638 III, V | Strozzi: and after these Cipriano Mangione, Jacopo Sacchetti,
639 II, III | to extend the walls, the circle of which was enlarged to
640 I, V | causing a report to be circulated that Corradino had died,
641 II, VII | seeing themselves thus circumstanced, they abandoned the bridges,
642 IV, VII | Niccolo Barbadoro. After this citation, Rinaldo thought further
643 VII, III | means of recovering that citizenship which they had not been
644 V, III | building, accompanied by those civic magistrates, and other officers
645 I, II | to live in an orderly and civilized manner. For surely if any
646 V, III | governed them in his name. Claiming them as his daughter’s portion,
647 VIII, I | attempt it in secrecy, and by clandestine means; which plots rarely
648 Int | where morals and politics clash, the latter generally gets
649 II, II | As soon as they met, they classed the whole of the people
650 Not | typed up from a Universal Classics Library edition, published
651 V, I | her people.~The city being cleared of the enemies, or suspected
652 I, IV | river Cydnus, tempted by the clearness of its waters, bathed therein,
653 VII, I | procedure produces parties and cliques; and in proportion as influence
654 Int | comedies the Mandragola and Clizia, and his novel Belfagor.~
655 VII, III | disturbance the Signory closed the palace and kept their
656 V, VI | everywhere exercised the very closest espionage over epistolary
657 VIII, II | so contrived, that upon closing they could not be opened
658 IV, III | already in flames, he cast clothes and straw from a part which
659 III, III | alike. Dress us in their clothing, and they in ours, we shall
660 | Co
661 VI, V | confined the enemy to the coast.~
662 VIII, IV | his sovereign’s commands, coasting along the Italian shores,
663 I, IV | Sicily, and plundered the coasts of Italy daily. On this
664 VII, I | mistake; and when Donato Cocchi, being Gonfalonier of Justice,
665 IV, VII | being come, Niccolo di Cocco was drawn Gonfalonier for
666 VII, VI | been committed with their cognizance, and made heavy complaints
667 IV, II | endeavored to induce him to coincide with their views; and begged
668 Int, 0(1)| Machiavelli nella loro Relazione col Machiavellismo, by O. Tommasini,
669 IV, III | of the duke, proceed but coldly in their cause; so that
670 VIII, III | war, by raising money and collecting as large a force as possible.
671 III, II | favor of the Ammoniti—The Collegi disapprove of the law—Salvestro
672 IV, II | followed many lamentable collisions, attended with the blood
673 VIII, VI | dissensions arising between the Colonessi and the Orsini.~In the war
674 I, III | of Magonza, Treveri, and Colonia. This occurred in the year
675 VIII, V | by the assistance of the Colonna family (the Orsini had joined
676 I, II | little importance; for, while combating the customs of the ancient
677 VII, II | exhibition of equestrian combats), in which the sons of the
678 III, IV | Michael di Lando, a wool comber. This man, barefoot, with
679 III, IV | namely, one for the wool combers and dyers, one for the barbers,
680 VI, IV | great military superiority, combined with such an extent of territory,
681 Int | we may mention here his comedies the Mandragola and Clizia,
682 V, VI | appeased. The castellan comforting him with kind words, he
683 I, IV | power of the Christians. To commemorate these events the order of
684 VIII, I | the conspiracy.~This book, commencing between two conspiracies,
685 Int | do not form a continuous commentary on Livy, give Machiavelli
686 VIII, VII | and poetry, many of his comments and poetical compositions
687 V, VI | were very remiss with their commissariat.~In the meantime, Niccolo
688 I, IV | CHAPTER IV~Nicholas II. commits the election of the pope
689 VIII, VI | of their affairs, and a committee of eight, who, as the executive
690 II, IV | took the opportunity of committing a wicked act, for which
691 VI, V | always slow to resolve on commotion; but the resolution once
692 VII, IV | no reply to the princes’ communications, and told the citizens,
693 VIII, III | who were not admitted to communion with the latter, to offer
694 VII, VI | performed by the bishop of Como, who acquainted him with
695 VIII, IV | of the pope will have a companion in victory, but in defeat
696 II, VIII| the kings of Naples was companionship and not servitude. Have
697 I, VI | being drawn together into a comparatively small space, in a short
698 III, I | this, if it be allowable to compare small things with great,
699 V, V | between them that may be compared to a bowstring, of which
700 II, I | particularly in Italy, in comparison of ancient times, have become
701 IV, V | gave opportunity, they were compensated for the rest.~Complaints
702 VI, VI | Florentines demanded some compensation from him. The Venetians
703 VIII, I | when the Pazzi came in competition with other citizens, their
704 II, VII | determined to sell it. The competitors for the purchase were the
705 II, I | Lucardesi, Chiaramontesi, Compiobbesi, Cavalcanti, Giandonati,
706 IV, IV | possession of Ruoti and Compito, castles belonging to the
707 IV, III | committed eighteen of the complainants to prison. The Volterrani,
708 VIII, VI | restored; but they, instead of complying with the entreaties of the
709 IV, VI | the numbers of each party composing it were made publicly known,
710 VIII, VII | his comments and poetical compositions still remaining. To facilitate
711 VIII, I | elsewhere, or could it be comprised in few words. But requiring
712 VI, V | of about twenty vessels, comprising galleys and smaller craft,
713 III, IV | The Signory, desirous of a compromise, since they could not restrain
714 I, I | their outset; but Stilicho, concealing his design, ingratiated
715 IV, VII | grandees, restoring and conceding to them all the honors of
716 VI, IV | avaricious, or, in their own conceit, powerful men, these arguments
717 VI, VII | winds, impetuous beyond all conception; while flashes of awful
718 VI, VII | otherwise with their domestic concerns, as will be particularly
719 V, IV | Italy—Niccolo Piccinino, in concert with the duke of Milan,
720 I, V | of Benevento, born of a concubine. Conrad came to take possession
721 IV, V | if vanquished, universal condemnation is incurred; from one’s
722 III, V | fresh outrages, either by condemnations, admonitions, or banishment
723 IV, VI | forbids, disapproves, or condemns men for being pious, liberal,
724 VI, VII | and overcharged volume of condensed vapor burst; its fragments
725 VIII, IV | Florentines, that if they would condescend to ask the pope’s pardon,
726 VIII, VI | humanity, affability, and condescension influence the minds of soldiers;
727 VIII, VII | ambassadors to Florence, to condole with the city on the occasion;
728 VIII, II | perfectly concealed; for while conducting him to the church, and after
729 V, II | for the latter was now his confederate, and served in his pay.
730 II, I | well-regulated republic, or that confers so many advantages upon
731 VII, II | employed one of his most trusty confidants to carry his design into
732 IV, IV | assembled a few of his most confidential friends, he assured them
733 II, IV | the poet, —their property confiscated, and their houses pulled
734 V, IV | Florentines, finding the conflagration so near, either for their
735 III, VI | insurrection. Hence many conflicts took place between the different
736 III, I | only such principles as are conformable to true civil liberty. And
737 VIII, II | who do them wrong, and not confound private animosities with
738 VI, V | his stay, he determined to confront the danger, and taking arms
739 V, V | duke to follow the plan congenial to their own views. Niccolo
740 V, VII | friend of the republic and congratulating you on your victory, not
741 VI, V | relief, others beginning to congregate, there was soon collected
742 VI, III | establishment of peace. A congress was accordingly held in
743 V, VII | great clouds of dust, and conjecturing at once, that it must be
744 V, IV | by land. These arguments, conjoined with the hatred which the
745 VIII, IV | been concerted with the connivance of King Ferrando. They complained
746 VIII, IV | awakened the Florentines to a consciousness of the miseries they had
747 V, III | Count di Poppi—The pope consecrates the church of Santa Reparata—
748 V, III | The usual ceremonies of consecration having been completed, the
749 II, VIII| ignorance or malignity, were consenting parties.~The duke, having
750 III, I | duke of Athens ought to be consigned to oblivion. His cruel and
751 IV, III | which my honor and glory consist, I will not give up, neither
752 V, V | reconcile with their ideas of consistency, except by supposing some
753 VIII, VI | Pisa; but they could not, consistently with the treaty, besiege
754 VI, III | with their whole force, consisting of five thousand horse and
755 IV, VII | might happen, he had the consolation of knowing, that previously
756 III, II | country to their ghostly consolations, and thus showed the church,
757 Int | failed in his schemes for the consolidation of his power in the Romagna.
758 VII, I | ostentation. Thus in selecting consorts for his sons, he did not
759 II, VIII| people which had taken so conspicuous a part in making him sovereign,
760 I, III | prefect of the army, dethroned Constantine; and as Puglia and Calabria,
761 II, III | of the Arts to reform the constitution of the city; and by his
762 V, VII | astonishing, that an army so constructed should have sufficient energy
763 VI, V | weak from its defective construction, and still more so by its
764 III, VII | done anything that could be construed as either factious or ambitious,
765 III, III | Colleague, Capitano di Parte, or Consul of any art whatever, be
766 Int | utmost fidelity and with consummate skill. When, after the battle
767 IV, VII | places in Italy which did not contain some, and many others beyond
768 VII, II | days all the provisions it contained, or that could be procured
769 Not | was not named. The book contains a “photogravure” of Niccolo
770 IV, III | equalization was no longer contemplated.~The war with the duke still
771 VII, I | make our narrative of the contemporaneous domestic transactions clearly
772 VII, I | not only surpassed all his contemporaries in wealth and authority,
773 VI, III | before the fight, had spoken contemptuously of the count, calling him “
774 II, VIII| from any motives, to submit contentedly to his authority. He also
775 I, VI | condition that her husband, contenting himself with the title of
776 IV, VI | trivial, was made a subject of contention among them. Secrets were
777 II, VIII| with that which produced contentment among the rest. With regard
778 V, II | of this high office being contested by means inadmissible in
779 I, VII | his stead. Hence arose new contests between Braccio, who took
780 VI, III | of Fazio and Arrigo de’ Conti, of the Gherardesca, took
781 I, IV | was created, which still continues, and holds the island of
782 Int | Discourses, which do not form a continuous commentary on Livy, give
783 VIII, II | supposition, as we all know, is contradicted by every view of the circumstances;
784 V, II | to him how completely he contravened his own interests, by favoring
785 VII, I | attain distinction, but as he contributes to her good, and each party
786 IV, III | florin of taxes. Individual contribution would thus be determined
787 VII, I | 1427, so that individual contributions were determined by statute,
788 V, VI | them so well guarded by the contrivance of Niccolo da Pisa, that
789 VIII, I | the destruction of their contrivers, and, in time, inevitably
790 III, III | You may be sure they are contriving something against us; they
791 I, VI | generally chosen to arbitrate in controversies between the states, as occurred
792 VIII, V | their governor; the terms of convention between them declaring,
793 I, VI | the new city; and in the conventions which were made between
794 VII, I | for in Florence are the convents and churches of St. Marco
795 VII, III | frequently visited Piero, conversed with him respecting the
796 IV, IV | something of importance, and conversing on different subjects, let
797 III, VII | discontent, or, like many others, convert social evils to his own
798 VII, III | how, at her pleasure, she converts friends into enemies, and
799 VII, II | to send ships thither to convey the forces to Sclavonia.
800 VII, IV | Florence, as if unable to convince themselves they had conquered,
801 III, IV | command; and, as he was a cool and sagacious man, more
802 VI, VII | in Hungary their zeal was cooled through the death of Giovanni
803 II, V | and if he had possessed a cooler spirit he would have left
804 VIII, IV | painful after the blood cools than when they were first
805 VIII, VI | barons, put to death Jacopo Coppola and Antonello d’Aversa and
806 III, VI | Benini, Rinucci, Formiconi, Corbizzi, Manelli, and Alderotti.
807 II, I | jealousies and receive them with cordiality.~
808 II, II | They were, however, most cordially hated, both by the people
809 II, I | of the city. Selling his corn at a lower price than others
810 VII, I | but for Giovanni chose Corneglia degli Allesandri, and for
811 II, VII | government; at every street corner and public place they were
812 IV, II | by the people, who at the corners of streets insulted them
813 V, V | Giovanni Vitelleschi of Corneto was at first apostolic notary,
814 VII, I | whole city following his corpse to the tomb in the church
815 VIII, IV | good, and to effect whose correction is the duty not only of
816 II, I | city of Venice proves the correctness of these remarks. Being
817 VIII, II | And that their deeds might correspond with their words, they immediately
818 VI, II | obeyed. Meeting him in the corridor, which leads to the chambers
819 III, I | cities of Italy all that is corruptible and corrupting is assembled.
820 I, V | escaping unknown, was taken by corsairs of Catalonia and put to
821 VI, VII | through the death of Giovanni Corvini the Waiwode, who commanded
822 VI, VI | except the fortress of Corzano. Gambacorti was accompanied,
823 II, I | trite and common adage, Cosa fatta capo ha. Thereupon,
824 VIII, V | the Florentines engaged Costanzo, lord of Pesaro; and to
825 VI, III | count had his whole army at Cotignola, ready to pass into Lombardy,
826 I, VII | first of whom was Sforza of Cotignuola, reputed by the soldiery
827 VI, IV | promise thee? What else couldst thou, not from us merely,
828 II, I | the office of the four councillors was taken from their party,
829 II, I | good men, created eight counsellors, four from each party. The
830 I, II | so many persecutions, the countenances of men bore witness of the
831 VI, VI | of Antonio Gualandi, who counteracts the design of Gambacorti—
832 VIII, III | of the one, was more than counterbalanced by the disgraceful proceedings
833 V, VI | be wasted in marching and countermarching. Orsatto Justiniani and
834 II, VIII| degree of merit in a prince countervail the loss of it. Consider,
835 V, VI | watch of one of the gates, a countryman, his friend, told him, that
836 IV, IV | disadvantage, most of the adjoining countryside was separated from her,
837 V, IV | cannot be surpassed in courtesy, and the liberality he sees
838 VII, V | duke found the city full of courtly delicacies, and customs
839 III, II | arms; and presently the courtyards were filled with armed men,
840 VIII, II | banished, and such of his cousins as remained alive were imprisoned
841 IV, IV | ready are the multitude to covet the possessions of others
842 III, VI | the admonished were the Covini, Benini, Rinucci, Formiconi,
843 II, VIII| and it was the part of a coward to shun a glorious undertaking
844 V, VI | Orlandini rendered the men cowardly and the fortress untenable;
845 VII, I | situated at Careggi, Fiesole, Craggiulo, and Trebbio, each, for
846 VI, IV | ambassadors to Venice with full credentials to effect the ratification,
847 IV, IV | the war. It seems hardly credible that such contrary opinions
848 VIII, VI | customhouse, so that each creditor should participate in the
849 VIII, VI | determinations of the council. Their credits were divided into shares,
850 VI, III | in adversity abject and cringing), prostrated himself, weeping
851 III, VII | Spini, Antonio Girolami, Cristofano di Carlone, and two others
852 VIII, VII | Agnolo da Montepulciano, Cristofero Landini, and Demetrius Chalcondylas,
853 VII, V | retain it by force it will in critical junctures, occasion weakness
854 VII, II | the Medici meeting in the Crocetta, and their adversaries in
855 VI, III | the plunder and prisoners, crouching down, as if to escape observation,
856 VIII, II | arrived. The church was crowded, and divine service commenced
857 I, IV | nature, were afterward called crusades, because the people who
858 VI, I | obtains, when the enemy is crushed and possession is retained
859 III, VI | sought an opportunity of crushing him.~During this state of
860 IV, V | themselves on the ground, crying aloud, and praying that
861 I, II | Cunimund to be formed into a cup, from which, in memory of
862 V, III | therefore seemed necessary to curb his insolence, and not allow
863 V, IV | insolence were not in some way curbed, all the powers of Italy
864 II, VIII| course, but to attempt the cure by the means which had caused
865 V, VI | faithful, and the rapid current undermining the banks has
866 II, IV | hand upon a block used for cutting meat upon, and then said
867 I, IV | And being near the river Cydnus, tempted by the clearness
868 VII, VI | respect to the island of Cyprus, to which Ferrando laid
869 VII, I | of the saints Cosmo and Damiano. His earlier years were
870 III, III | were, when one of the most daring and experienced, in order
871 VI, VII | intense and impenetrable darkness, covering a breadth of about
872 I, VI | them from a rather earlier date.~Milan, upon recovering
873 III, VII | were taken, except Tommaso Davizi, who, coming from Bologna,
874 IV, V | Florentine but the name; a more deadly pest, a more savage beast,
875 VIII, II | former, having been rendered deaf by the fortune and liberty
876 VIII, II | attacked Lorenzo, and after dealing many blows, effected only
877 VIII, II | people and liberty were as dear to other citizens as to
878 III, I | and every age abounds with debasing habits, which the good laws,
879 VI, III | several days, and after many debates, resolved on either a truce
880 VI, I | impoverished by victory or debilitated by conquest, must either
881 VII, IV | civil discord and constant debility. Piero was buried in the
882 Int | work, his Discourses on the Decades of Livy, which continued
883 IV, I | to obey the will of her deceased husband, to withdraw him
884 VII, III | secretly taken up arms, deceitfully induced them to lay their
885 II, VIII| you imagine otherwise, you deceive yourself; for, to one accustomed
886 V, IV | with the duke of Milan, deceives the pope, and takes many
887 VI, VII | The Florentines took no decisive part in this war. John,
888 VII, IV | citizen of great reputation, declares himself in favor of the
889 V, IV | perils we should avoid, by declining to involve ourselves in
890 V, IV | prince had replied, as strict decorum on such occasions required,
891 III, IV | whole of what their former decrees had granted them, and distributed
892 Int | between 1521 and 1525, and dedicated to Clement VII. The first
893 III, VII | the other citizens might deem most advisable should be
894 II, VIII| would serve to sink us still deeper in ignominy. And if your
895 V, V | ditches, bastions, and other defenses erected by Niccolo, was
896 VI, V | its defenders or his own deficiencies, thirty-six days elapsed
897 VI, VI | must stand charged with deficiency of understanding; for such
898 VI, IV | Florentines and the Venetians, defied the duke, despised the king,
899 V, VI | they had sent into the defiles of these hills many of their
900 III, I | virtue of the Roman nobility degenerating into pride, the citizens
901 VIII, II | such utter ruin and extreme degradation. It is said he had vices,
902 III, V | many of the people, and degraded many nobles to the popular
903 V, IV | resist the duke, had not deigned to ask for any assistance,
904 IV, II | allowed themselves to be dejected; but if they set a bold
905 IV, VII | adopt. However, Rinaldo, by delaying his coming to the piazza,
906 VIII, III | Count Jacopo, and after many delays, they complied; for having
907 VI, VII | operate, they proceeded with deliberately with their preparations
908 III, IV | violence granted, by the joint deliberation of the Signors, Colleagues,
909 VII, I | were openly advised in the deliberative councils not to renew the
910 VII, V | the city full of courtly delicacies, and customs unsuitable
911 III, V | midst of his armed enemies, delighted at his fall. Some of his
912 VII, V | throughout the city; the people demanding the restitution of what
913 VIII, VII | Cristofero Landini, and Demetrius Chalcondylas, a Greek, may
914 VII, II | otherwise have done. Upon the demise of Cosmo, his son Piero,
915 III, I | case before the council and denounce the offender, even if he
916 II, I | desert, and the other a dense and wretched population.
917 VIII, IV | Ferrando allowed him to depart on the sixth of March, 1479,
918 VIII, IV | disorder prevailing in every department, the duke of Calabria, who
919 V, IV | of the republic seemed to depend. Being introduced to the
920 V, III | another difficulty, which, depending on circumstances beyond
921 V, IV | the safety of both states depends upon their separate strength
922 III, IV | reform of government by deposing the Syndics of the trades,
923 II, VI | their names had not been deposited among the rest, and a new
924 I, VI | ocean, their city became a depository for the various products
925 VII, VI | other cause, he constantly deprecated the condition of those who
926 V, I | to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower,
927 III, IV | vindicated by force. This deputation, with amazing audacity and
928 V, VI | and Giovanni Pisani were deputed on the part of Venice to
929 I, III | Romagna were governed by a deputy of the western emperor;
930 Int, 0(1)| in Mohl, Gesch. u. Liter. der Staatswissenshaften, Erlangen,
931 VII, I | man’s mind actually became deranged, and he had to retire from
932 VII, I | were often ridiculed and derided, and frequently heard themselves
933 VII, V | thither, one of them was in derision stripped by the soldiers.
934 II, I | opinions concerning the derivation of the word Florentia. Some
935 III, I | Albizzi—Piero degli Albizzi derives advantage from it—Origin
936 V, III | Though this resolution was derogatory to the majesty of the Greek
937 III, V | under Charles of Durazzo, a descendant of the kings of Naples,
938 IV, II | addressed the assembly, describing the condition of the city,
939 II, I | possess institutions that deserve praise. In ancient times,
940 VII, IV | were his sons, though he designated them by terms reflecting
941 V, III | full of exasperation, they despatched letters to every part of
942 II, VIII| Nor was his person less despicable than his manners; he was
943 VI, VI | foretell, and that he was destined to effect the glorious task;
944 III, III | acquired, and thus poverty and destitution are brought upon the city.
945 III, II | chambers have escaped these destroyers’ hands, except out of reverence
946 I, II | Totila takes Rome—Narses destroys the Goths—New form of Government
947 II, I | republics, having gone into desuetude, the ruin and weakness of
948 IV, VII | return; and that if Neri were detached from Rinaldo, the party
949 V, I | disorderly forces. And if, in detailing the events which took place
950 Int | apparent reason, while in its details the authority of his History
951 VIII, IV | peace—Lorenzo de’ Medici determines to go to Naples to treat
952 IV, V | that others may not be deterred by our example from submitting
953 III, VI | same cause compelled me to detest those who now govern, who
954 VIII, II | infamous, ambitious, and detestable motive is at once disclosed.
955 III, III | the objects of universal detestation. After these resolutions,
956 VIII, II | usurped power deserves to be detested; but not distinctions conceded
957 I, III | while prefect of the army, dethroned Constantine; and as Puglia
958 Int, 0(1)| translated by Christian E. Detmold. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1882,
959 I, VI | themselves in security amid the devastations of Italy, and soon increased
960 V, II | plan would manifest and develop the course best to be adopted.
961 I, VI | the point from which we deviated. The Emperor Louis, to add
962 VII, II | authority of the state would devolve upon himself; Niccolo Soderini
963 I, I | empire of Constantinople devolved upon Zeno, and that of Rome
964 V, V | and who had always been devotedly attached to him. Niccolo
965 VIII, III | shepherd, to avoid being devoured under false accusations,
966 IV, V | to Pescia, where Pagolo Diacceto was lieutenant governor,
967 III, VI | and Sienna, and prepared a diadem with which to be crowned
968 I, II | we see in the different dialects of France, Spain and Italy;
969 II, III | present remains, although its diameter was previously only the
970 VI, IV | than, contrary to every dictate of propriety, thou didst
971 I, II | languages—New names—Theodoric dies—Belisarius in Italy— Totila
972 II, VIII| wishes, have advised you differently. You are endeavoring to
973 III, I | results ought not to make you diffident of your power to repress
974 I, III | of the pontiff, began to dignify their own power with a title,
975 VII, IV | yourselves those honors, dignities, and emoluments which used
976 VII, I | future to forbear, similar digressions. For although we have not
977 VII, I | affairs of Florence, I have dilated too much in speaking of
978 V, V | dissatisfied; they were dilatory in furnishing provisions,
979 V, VII | amusement. So great was the diligence of the commissaries and
980 III, V | which again, instead of diminishing the suspicion, augmented
981 VIII, II | and finding the Signory at dinner (for it was now late), was
982 V, I | this when the philosophers, Diogenes and Carneades, were sent
983 Int, 0(1)| Historical, Political, and Diplomatic writings of Niccolo Machiavelli,
984 IV, VII | desired him to go to the director of the hospital of Santa
985 VI, V | indignation against him. However, disagreeing with the rest, Gasparre
986 II, I | of Andrea Strozzi—Serious disagreements between the nobility and
987 VII, III | possible to perform), shame and disappointment are the ordinary results.
988 III, II | the Ammoniti—The Collegi disapprove of the law—Salvestro addresses
989 IV, VII | citizens and a great number of disbanded soldiers then in Florence:
990 IV, IV | money, or by apparently disbanding his own troops, and then
991 VII, II | de’ Medici—Niccolo Fedini discloses to Piero the plots of his
992 III, VI | the signors; but without disclosing the extent of their displeasure,
993 VIII, VI | return of spring.~When the discomfiture was known at Florence, the
994 IV, VII | Signory—His designs are disconcerted—Pope Eugenius in Florence—
995 VII, VI | in these jealousies and discontents before any disturbance broke
996 VI, I | retire to his kingdom, and discontinue hostilities against the
997 II, VIII| against the duke— The duke discovers the conspiracies, and becomes
998 IV, IV | parties throughout the city discussing the matter, and nearly all
999 V, III | days, in which many long discussions took place, the Greeks yielded,
1000 VII, II | become so great, that he disdained to submit to Piero; Diotisalvi
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