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Niccolò Machiavelli
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1001 V, II | preservation. What greater disease can afflict a republic than 1002 VIII, VI | the duke of Milan, being disengaged, was appointed to take the 1003 VIII, V | he must either fight or disgracefully retire. To avoid a retreat 1004 VII, VI | friend of the family, who, disguising him in his own apparel, 1005 III, III | difficulty in preserving what is dishonestly acquired, and thus poverty 1006 III, I | latter to command, and the disinclination of the former to obey, are 1007 VIII, II | tomb of his ancestors, was disinterred like an excommunicated person, 1008 VII, I | calculated to excite popular dislike. Consequently, whenever 1009 IV, VII | great evil. Among those who disliked it was Palla Strozzi, a 1010 V, VII | the River Oglio; these he dislodged and compelled to retreat 1011 Int | prudent enough to unite dismembered Italy, for in the unity 1012 V, IV | which arise wars and the dismemberment of states. We are also aware 1013 VII, III | therefore, advised Niccolo to dismiss his followers and return 1014 III, I | ADMONITIONS, if they were disobedient, they became condemned in 1015 I, II | evils they suffered from the disordered state of the world, they 1016 VI, III | could so far err as to speak disparagingly of those who did not merit 1017 V, II | suppose that under such disparity of circumstances, the result 1018 IV, V | assistance of the duke, who dispatched Niccolo Piccinino, under 1019 IV, VII | occasioned they might at once be dispelled, for that if they came to 1020 IV, V | it of those who had it to dispense, and agreed with the Florentines, 1021 I, III | was added a prefect, who dispensed justice among the people; 1022 II, I | disarmed them, ordered them to disperse among their relatives and 1023 I, I | wasting the country round, and dispersing the inhabitants. This, as 1024 VII, III | favor of Piero deMediciDispersion of his enemiesFall of Lucca 1025 VII, IV | solemnized with all the display suitable to the exalted 1026 III, VI | with the state itself in displays of magnificence. The Alberti 1027 VI, IV | violated faith, if treacheries displease him, and if, as ever, he 1028 V, V | some parts liable to be disputed by the enemy, was chosen 1029 IV, IV | lose it, live in constant disquiet. By adopting this method, 1030 VIII, IV | upon each succession, the disregard shown by their church toward 1031 VI, I | games and solemn festivals, disseminate universal joy. But the victories 1032 III, VII | went from one to another, disseminating his views, showing that 1033 III, I | not appear any cause of dissension in Florence. But the evil 1034 II, II | concluded, with only one dissenting voice, that in order to 1035 VII, I | Capponi become powerful by dissimilar meansReform in the election 1036 V, VI | This favorable intelligence dissipated the count’s fears, and he 1037 VI, VI | though he immediately went to dissuade René from carrying it into 1038 IV, VI | who, though many friends dissuaded him from it, obeyed the 1039 VIII, I | undivided authority, and distinguish them from other citizens 1040 I, IV | of barbarians, might be distracted with intestine strife. Henry, 1041 II, I | occupied and preserve a proper distribution of its inhabitants without 1042 IV, I | not have excited so much distrust; that appointing the ten 1043 I, VI | besides these, many others in divers places. Thus, of all the 1044 VI, IV | than the Venetians.~These diverse views kept the city long 1045 VI, I | the vanquished soldiery, divesting themselves of their accoutrements, 1046 V, V | crosses the city, which it divides unequally, giving much the 1047 IV, VI | among them. Secrets were divulged, good and evil alike became 1048 III, IV | road toward it. All the documents belonging to the woolen 1049 IV, I | enjoyed freedom under the Dogiate of Tommaso da Campo Fregoso. 1050 IV, II | not endure to be used like dogs; and the rest were desirous 1051 V, IV | count, saying, that if the doings of Niccolo were contrary 1052 IV, I | who from Zagonara, his own domain, overran the country daily, 1053 VII, III | to Piero; besides this, Domenico Martelli had informed him, 1054 II, VI | themselves delivered from the domination of the one and the fear 1055 I, III | of France, for assistanceDonation of Pepin to the pontiff— 1056 II, II | beneficial results to the donors, but hastened their ruin. 1057 VI, VI | twofold relationship and double marriage, each giving a 1058 V, VI | leaders of the conspiracy, and doubled the guards at the gates, 1059 III, IV | dyers, one for the barbers, doublet-makers, tailors, and such like, 1060 VI, VII | then doge of Genoa, and doubting his ability to sustain the 1061 V, III | influence, created more doubts and uneasiness than the 1062 VII, IV | enemies burned the Borgo of Dovadola, and plundered the surrounding 1063 VII, II | received with her a large dowry. She, either by her own 1064 VIII, III | bishops, murder, mangle, and drag about the bodies of priests, 1065 IV, V | dishonored the virgins, and dragging them from the arms of their 1066 I, II | memory of the victory, he drank. Being invited into Italy 1067 V, III | wide, covered with rich drapery, for the accommodation of 1068 VIII, V | engagement, taken a copious draught of water, he was seized 1069 V, VI | castellan to be upon the drawbridge of the fortress in the morning, 1070 VII, I | understand they were “not dreaming.” He said, “he believed 1071 VI, VI | he entered the apartment dressed in cloth of gold, with rich 1072 II, I | them, that they gradually dropped off and returned to their 1073 I, II | came from the bath. Having drunk half of it, he suspected 1074 I, II | among themselves thirty dukes to govern the rest. This 1075 VII, IV | goodness and virtue were not duly appreciated by his country, 1076 Not | published in 1901 by W. Walter Dunne, New York and London. The 1077 VI, IV | this time he determined to dupe the Venetians, and not abandon 1078 VI, IV | Venetians and Milanese—The count dupes the Venetians and Milanese— 1079 II, VIII| that no dominion can be durable to which the governed do 1080 I, VI | necessity had led them to dwell on sterile rocks, they were 1081 III, I | her citizens.~“We have not dwelt upon our corrupt habits 1082 III, IV | for the wool combers and dyers, one for the barbers, doublet-makers, 1083 V, IV | friendship to the French dynasty, but the duke was entirely 1084 III, V | induced them to lend a willing ear to any calumnies against 1085 IV, VI | Niccolo da Uzzano was the earliest to take offense; and while 1086 VI, VII | sounds issued, of which no earthquake or thunder ever heard could 1087 II, I | who, on the morning of Easter day, concealed themselves 1088 VIII, II | The name of the Medici echoed everywhere, and portions 1089 Int, 0(1)| Machiavelli e i suoi tempi, 2d ed. Milan, 1895-97, the best 1090 V, III | and the splendor of the edifice, and do greater honor to 1091 Not | Universal Classics Library edition, published in 1901 by W. 1092 VIII, I | Jacopo di Poggio, a well educated youth, but ambitious and 1093 Int | received the usual humanistic education of his time, as he knew 1094 VI, II | death of his accuser, to efface the stain upon his character.~ 1095 VI, V | forces and conclude more effective arrangements than had hitherto 1096 II, VI | give increased strength and efficacy to their counsels, the Signory 1097 VIII, V | of the war with greater efficiency, the League assembled a 1098 Int | Let anyone read the famous eighteenth chapter of The Prince: “ 1099 I, V | himself was slain, in the eightieth year of his age, and all 1100 VII, VI | expired, having only once ejaculated the name of the Virgin, 1101 IV, VII | usual for three days to elapse before the new Signory assume 1102 III, VI | my fathers, and you the elders of our house, how fortune 1103 II, VI | repulsedChange in the mode of electing the great officers of state— 1104 VII, I | Florence, of extent and elegance adapted to so great a citizen, 1105 III, V | and although nothing was elicited against them sufficient 1106 VII, IV | duke and king Ferrando; Elisabetta, daughter of Alfonso, the 1107 II, I | Brunelleschi, Caponsacchi, Elisei, Abati, Tidaldini, Giuochi, 1108 VI, VII | proceeding among oaks and elms, or small and thinly scattered 1109 IV, V | one night cut through the embankment of the ditch itself, so 1110 V, IV | passage of the forces.~Neri embarked at Cesena and went to Venice; 1111 IV, IV | disposition toward them; and their embarrassing situation with regard to 1112 III, III | no one ever escaped from embarrassment without some peril. Besides, 1113 Int | government. Free Rome is the embodiment of his political idea of 1114 II, VI | were to succeed them. These emborsations were afterward called Squittini, 1115 II, VI | beginning arose the custom of emborsing or enclosing the names of 1116 VIII, VI | hands with this man and embracing that, induced them to proceed 1117 VII, VI | often happens in sudden emergencies, some fled from the church, 1118 IV, I | of Antonio Bentivogli, an emigrant of Bologna at Castel Bolognese), 1119 Int | historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any 1120 Int | the ancients rendered him eminently qualified. The Discourses 1121 IV, III | remuneration to those who thus employ themselves, without wishing 1122 II, IV | should participate in the employments of the government, to which 1123 IV, VII | understand, that the Signory had empowered him to settle the differences 1124 VI, V | marriage celebrated with the empress, who had come to Rome by 1125 VI, I | of which we speak, first emptied the treasury, and then impoverished 1126 VII, I | and all the citizens were emulous in imitation of them; so 1127 II, VI | the custom of emborsing or enclosing the names of all who should 1128 IV, I | the relief of Zagonara, on encountering the enemy they were soon 1129 V, I | during many months various encounters took place between them, 1130 IV, II | warRinaldo degli Albizzi encourages the citizensMeasures for 1131 VI, I | find their very existence endangered, for both would join Filippo 1132 VIII, VI | conduct at Pietra Santa endeared him to the army.~Upon the 1133 VIII, II | forget, under pretense of endearment, to press him in his arms, 1134 Int | most successful and most enduring example of popular government. 1135 V, I | the martial mind cannot be enfeebled by a more excusable indulgence 1136 II, III | spirit with which it was enforced. At first it impressed them 1137 VIII, VII | it; but Cecco, the famous engineer, lost his life during the 1138 V, VI | with catapults and other engines, assailed it without intermission. 1139 Not | Niccolo Machiavelli from an engraving.~ 1140 IV, IV | than those who endeavor to engross more than belongs to them; 1141 VIII, IV | their just indignation, and enlarging on the unfortunate condition 1142 V, VII | Castello to the Borgo, where he enlisted two thousand men, who, trusting 1143 III, V | admonished thirty-nine citizens, ennobled many of the people, and 1144 II, I | vengeance proportionate to the enormity of the offence would be 1145 VI, I | republic or a prince is enriched by the victories he obtains, 1146 VII, III | nocturnal assemblies, the enrollment of partisans, and attempts 1147 IV, IV | had been injured by her enslavers, as formerly by Castruccio, 1148 I, V | pretense of friendship, were ensnared by the emperors. Rodolph 1149 VIII, IV | the pontiffs, the changes ensuing upon each succession, the 1150 VII, I | or with public games and entertainments gaining the affection of 1151 V, III | received with the utmost enthusiasm by the people, who promised 1152 I, V | unless it happened they were entrapped by deceit, as occurred to 1153 VII, V | the piazza, alternately entreating and threatening those who 1154 III, II | Gonfalonier leaving them, entreatingly and authoritatively detained 1155 III, III | Guicciardini the Gonfalonier entreats the magistrates of the Arts 1156 IV, I | peace. Many others, whether envious of those in power, or fearing 1157 V, VI | very closest espionage over epistolary communication, in order 1158 IV, III | and this retrospective equalization was no longer contemplated.~ 1159 VIII, IV | he found them more than equalled by those of the besieged, 1160 VII, II | they call the exhibition of equestrian combats), in which the sons 1161 II, VIII| can do, that would be an equivalent for the sweets of liberty, 1162 I, VII | Torello, Antonia dal Ponte ad Era, and many others. With these, 1163 V, VI | no benefit or fear could eradicate the affection he bore toward 1164 V, IV | growth of years, can be eradicated from our minds by any recent 1165 II, I | have occasioned the first erections that were made in those 1166 Int, 0(1)| der Staatswissenshaften, Erlangen, 1855, III., 521-91. See 1167 VII, VI | sons, Giovan Galeazzo and Ermes, to be brought to him, whom 1168 VI, III | as himself, could so far err as to speak disparagingly 1169 VII, I | birth, and one of the most erudite of his time, to Florence, 1170 Int | there is much that is of especial importance. To select a 1171 V, VI | exercised the very closest espionage over epistolary communication, 1172 VIII, VI | to the Colonnesi, who had espoused his cause. Upon the establishment 1173 II, I | the whole city; one party espousing the cause of the Buondelmonti, 1174 VIII, VI | Florentines found it would be essentially necessary to gain possession 1175 V, I | intercession of Niccolo da Esta, marquis of Ferrara; the 1176 II, II | government in FlorenceMilitary establishments—The greatness of Florence— 1177 II, II | working of parties, he did not estimate them in the manner his predecessors 1178 VII, IV | letter; but he, impartially estimating his own fortune and that 1179 V, I | nostro Firmiano, invito Petro et Paulo. Neither was he satisfied 1180 | etc 1181 I, I | government, and compelled Eudocia, widow of the late emperor, 1182 Int | Tanto nomini nullum par eulogium.”~And though this praise 1183 I, II | Justinian sent Narses, a eunuch, a man of great military 1184 I, II | might spin with the other eunuchs. Full of indignation, Narses 1185 I, I | nations, as the Zepidi, Eurili, Turingi, and Ostro, or 1186 I, IV | The leaders were Godfrey, Eustace, and Baldwin of Bouillon, 1187 VI, IV | country which the enemy had evacuated, and thus brought famine 1188 VII, IV | wealth; you sell justice; you evade the law; you oppress the 1189 VII, I | of August, 1458, on the eve of Saint Lorenzo, having 1190 VII, V | obtain permanent repose and everlasting fame. He called to recollection 1191 VI, V | similarly inefficient manner, evincing no greater talent, and incurring 1192 V, I | according to the Latin custom, Ex Girfalco nostro Firmiano, 1193 IV, VI | thought it necessary to act exactly as Rinaldo had advised, 1194 III, III | their enemies and their own exaltation; and thus honors will accrue 1195 V, III | After this, being full of exasperation, they despatched letters 1196 VII, VI | for a king, the expense exceeding twenty thousand florins. 1197 II, II | undaunted resolution, and excelled greatly in military affairs: 1198 V, I | All the nobility, with few exceptions, were reduced to the ranks 1199 III, VII | its defense, a violence excessively offensive, not only to those 1200 VI, VI | endeavored to induce him to exchange his territory for another 1201 III, I | pre-disposition for evil, new excitements were added.~ 1202 VI, IV | and children wept, and all exclaimed against the count as false 1203 III, I | those of Florence strove to exclude the nobility from all participation 1204 V, VI | would proceed thither to the exclusion of every other consideration. 1205 II, II | restore the Ghibellines and excommunicates FlorencePope Nicholas III. 1206 I, V | Colonnesi, and, besides excommunicating, endeavored to direct the 1207 I, IV | Mohammedans than the pope’s excommunications had done to the Christians; 1208 VIII, VII | gout, he was troubled with excruciating pains in the stomach, of 1209 VI, I | popePiccinino makes an excursion during the winter—The count 1210 V, I | cannot be enfeebled by a more excusable indulgence than that of 1211 VII, VI | conducted with secrecy and executed with resolution; and they 1212 VII, VI | and in the hands of the executioner, who stood by with the sword 1213 VIII, VI | committee of eight, who, as the executive body, should carry into 1214 II, V | ancient rectors they added an executor, or sheriff, who, with the 1215 VII, IV | while you yourselves are exempt from them, and enjoy all 1216 V, II | Although the pope greatly exerted himself in this affair, 1217 V, V | commenced his march, and by exerting the utmost celerity, reached 1218 VI, III | from it he would be able to exhaust them with a long war, obtain 1219 VI, IV | victory at Caravaggio had exhilarated them. The rulers of the 1220 III, VII | rather than assist them, they exhorted the men to take arms and 1221 I, IV | him. Frederick, unable to exist without war, joined the 1222 VII, V | inhabitants, for entrance or exit, they are usually allowed 1223 III, III | you become, and the more exorbitant are your demands. And though 1224 VII, V | mind was not fertile in expedients, thought the advice good, 1225 I, II | issue of their military expeditions, and was the ultimate cause 1226 II, V | subjection to King Robert, and expels the Count NovelloLando 1227 IV, III | this war the Florentines expended three millions and a half 1228 VII, I | though he was constantly expending money in building churches, 1229 VIII, I | happens that those who are expert in arms, and have faced 1230 VI, VI | arrested, and afterward expiated their crime by death. Thus 1231 VII, III | magistracy was on the point of expiring. Upon the election of Signors 1232 IV, III | considered a most brilliant exploit.~The war had continued from 1233 VIII, III | against their government, exposing the impiety and injustice 1234 Int | Machiavelli’s writings. Herein he expresses in his own masterly way 1235 II, I | widow who had a daughter of exquisite beauty, for whom, in her 1236 V, V | New Citadel, and a wall extends between them that may be 1237 I, II | as well as the origin and extension of many cities. Among those 1238 III, I | citizens thought rather of extinguishing existing factions than of 1239 VII, II | and that the duke should extirpate the adherents of the Bracceschi, 1240 VII, II | themselves did not possess, extirpated them; and hence the country 1241 VII, III | had been in the habit of extolling him as a man of surpassing 1242 Int | as a model, he in nowise extols him as a hero, but merely 1243 V, V | in quest of plunder, or extorting money from the inhabitants 1244 V, VI | no distinct idea could be extracted, the obscurity itself, and 1245 VII, VI | Piero. Although of very low extraction, and meanly brought up within 1246 VII, V | made a law to put a stop to extravagance in dress, feasts, and funerals.~ 1247 VII, V | dissolute than before, more extravagant in dress, feasting, and 1248 VIII, IV | citizens praised Lorenzo extravagantly, declaring that by his prudence 1249 VIII, IV | But God, who in similar extremities has always been her preserver, 1250 IV, VI | perceived they had no cause for exultation. Cosmo was one of the most 1251 VI, II | pope only retained Osimo, Fabriano, and Recanati; all the rest 1252 VIII, I | expert in arms, and have faced death in all forms on the 1253 I, II | division of the country greatly facilitated the ruin of Italy, and gave 1254 VII, VI | perpetua, stabit vetus memoria facti.”~The enterprise of these 1255 VII, IV | contracted that he could use no faculty but that of speech. All 1256 IV, V | have been lost. The count failing in his attempt went to Borgo 1257 VI, V | received the ambassadors with fair words, fearing their own 1258 VII, II | willing to allow one who falls of himself to meet his fate, 1259 III, I | had been willfully though falsely reported as having already 1260 VII, VI | well versed: “Mors acerba, fama perpetua, stabit vetus memoria 1261 VII, VI | subject; and in order to familiarize their minds with the deed 1262 III, II | army, trusting that being famished and unarmed, he should find 1263 VI, VI | pope, who already began to fancy the Mohammedans at their 1264 I, VI | lords of Rimino, Pesaro, and Fano; Antonio da Montefeltro, 1265 III, III | has made us all after one fashion. Strip us naked, and we 1266 IV, III | him a Ghibelline; and thus fasting, he died in a few days.~ 1267 VII, V(2)| lean peace is better than a fat victory.~ 1268 Int | and in fact, by a strange fatality, where morals and politics 1269 VII, I | not again encounter its fatigues and dangers, unless the 1270 II, I | trite and common adage, Cosa fatta capo ha. Thereupon, they 1271 Int | seems never again to have favoured him. It is true that in 1272 I, VII | the fortress of Pavia. But Fazino Cane, who in the affairs 1273 VI, III | and with the assistance of Fazio and Arrigo de’ Conti, of 1274 VII, V | more extravagant in dress, feasting, and other licentiousness, 1275 I, V | the pope gave Ferrara in fee to this Azone, from whom 1276 IV, IV | and of a friendly city, feeble and oppressed, they would 1277 III, III | good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those 1278 V, VI | three thousand horse, at Fegghine, commanded by Piero Giampagolo 1279 IV, III | out of regard for their fellow-countrymen who were arrested, did not 1280 VII, VI | to their wives or other female relatives, and had refused 1281 I, IV | rest were William, surnamed Ferabac, and Robert, called Guiscard. 1282 III, VII | not be satisfied, or the ferment of parties subside, without 1283 I, II | were held by Alboin, a man ferocious and bold, under whom they 1284 II, IV | of the Bianchi with Piero Ferrante, one of the barons who had 1285 VI, IV | on account of the ancient feud of the families of Braccio 1286 I, II | been united in one faith, fewer disorders would have followed; 1287 VII, I | He entertained Marsilio Ficino, the reviver of the Platonic 1288 V, III | apprehension arose from the fickle minds of the plebeians, 1289 V, III | cause. You all know how fiercely the Florentines have frequently 1290 VIII, VII | routed, and Lodovico dal Fiesco, with several other principal 1291 II, I | Romolo, a solemn day with the Fiesolani, they took and destroyed 1292 I, III | in which they had reigned fifty-five years, and reinstated the 1293 III, I | them, gave authority to fifty-six citizens to provide for 1294 VII, IV | anguish, he expired in the fifty-third year of his age. His goodness 1295 I, IV | their armor and apparel the figure of a cross. The leaders 1296 V, II | Santa Maria in Castello and Filetto, both which places he took. 1297 V, I | adversaries from the purses, and filling them with those of their 1298 V, V | between the Bondeno and the Finale to Ferrara, and thence they 1299 VIII, V | unsatisfactory state of their finances, and because the faults 1300 III, VII | accusation prevailed, and he was fined in a considerable sum of 1301 VIII, VII | artillery against the fortress, fired upon it with their utmost 1302 VIII, VII | fortified the castle of Firenzuola, situated in the midst of 1303 V, I | custom, Ex Girfalco nostro Firmiano, invito Petro et Paulo. 1304 VI, II | was almost impregnable. So flagrant an instance of cowardice 1305 VII, V | unreasonable and unwise to kindle a flame so near home that it might 1306 I, II | and the greater part of Flamminia, which is now called Romagna. 1307 V, VII | prevent them from wounding the flanks of the horses crossing the 1308 VI, VII | beyond all conception; while flashes of awful brilliancy, and 1309 V, IV | losses of territory, and the fleets they equipped upon the rivers 1310 I, IV | and it is now held by the Flemish.~About this time Urban II. 1311 II, IV | to FlorenceVeri Cerchi flies—The pope’s legate again 1312 II, I | did, a great many people flocked to his house; emboldened 1313 IV, VI | occupies the whole of one floor, and is called the Alberghettino, 1314 VIII, II | entrance occupied all the lower floors, so that the citizens, who 1315 II, I | suppose it to come from Florinus, one of the principal persons 1316 VIII, V | first attacked the Venetian flotilla, then lying upon the river 1317 II, I | suppose the word derived from fluente, or flowing of the Arno; 1318 II, I | originally not Florentia, but Fluentia, and suppose the word derived 1319 VIII, I | would lose all.~Lorenzo, flushed with youth and power, would 1320 VIII, V | water, he was seized with a flux, of which he very shortly 1321 III, II | do so, is most frequently foiled. They “admonished” the Colleague, 1322 VI, V | first attempt was to attack Fojano, in the Val di Chiane; for, 1323 I, VI | Clement VI. was elected at Fondi by ten cardinals, who declared 1324 VIII, IV | part of a free man, but a fool, and one disposed to evil 1325 IV, I | and in the latter, the foolish; so that each requires for 1326 III, I | regarded only in the light of fools.~“And certainly in the cities 1327 VII, VI | Moor, one of the duke’s footmen. Carlo was slain by those 1328 II, I | Bardi, Pulci, Gherardini, Foraboschi, Bagnesi, Guidalotti, Sacchetti, 1329 VI, III | that two hundred men of a foraging party, principally for want 1330 VII, I | my intention in future to forbear, similar digressions. For 1331 IV, VI | what law is there which forbids, disapproves, or condemns 1332 VII, III | that if he desired the forcible ruin of Piero, he might 1333 III, V | each seemed anxious to be foremost in defense of the measure. 1334 II, III | Mozzi, under three leaders, Forese Adimari, Vanni de Mozzi, 1335 VII, III | alone, but I can easily foresee the evils that will befall 1336 V, IV | Venetians defeated, as if foreseeing their own ruin in that of 1337 VI, VI | in this canzone seemed to foretell, and that he was destined 1338 IV, III | was either disclosed or foretold him, remained unmoved, although 1339 V, II | probability of regaining the forfeited affection of his fellow-citizens, 1340 II, V | his country and his party forgetful of their obligation to him. 1341 IV, V | man. Your lordships will forgive us; for, unable to support 1342 II, VIII| toward the former, quite forgot him, so that he, not being 1343 I, II | Parma, Bologna, Faenza, Forli, and Cesena, some defended 1344 III, VI | Covini, Benini, Rinucci, Formiconi, Corbizzi, Manelli, and 1345 VI, II | difficulties in the way of his forming a determination, were obviated 1346 VIII, IV | merit of their own. The formula of agreement and benediction 1347 VI, VII | under any circumstances, forsake him. The pontiff intended, 1348 VIII, VII | commenced the restoration and fortification of the Poggio Imperiale; 1349 I, VII | and also allowed him to fortify the castle of Saint Angelo: 1350 VII, V | prepared for its defense; fortifying the place, and sending to 1351 VI, II | the Seragli, Bartolommeo Fortini, Francesco Castellani, and 1352 V, V | carefully improved as it was fortunately obtained, Brescia would 1353 III, VII | be eligible to it, under forty-five years of age. Many other 1354 VI, V | after having lain before it forty-four days. So formidable were 1355 VIII, VII | died in April, 1492, in the forty-fourth year of his age; nor was 1356 III, V | faction. They appointed forty-six persons, who, with the Signory, 1357 II, IV | before him, having previously forwarded a statement of them in writing. 1358 I, IV | Normans, who had been the founders of it, to the Germans. As 1359 Int | masterly way his views on the founding of a new state, taking for 1360 III, I | the common good, but were framed wholly in favor of the conquerors. 1361 VIII, I | Bernardo Bandini and Napoleone Franzeni, two bold young men, under 1362 VIII, II | was beheaded; Napoleone Franzesi escaped punishment by flight; 1363 VII, I | foundation, a monastery of the Frati Minori, or Minims. Besides 1364 VI, IV | to defend themselves as freemen, they would be more inclined 1365 V, II | the most powerful are the Fregosa and the Adorna, from whom 1366 II, I | her markets might be more frequented, and afford greater accommodation 1367 III, III | man named Niccolo da San Friano was regulating the palace 1368 VIII, VII | Mariano da Chinazano, a friar of the order of St. Augustine, 1369 VII, IV | new alliances, leagues, or friendships. But in the midst of this 1370 IV, II | they appointed the ten to frighten the enemy. Have they relieved 1371 II, I | were a corruption, because Frontinus and Cornelius Tacitus, who 1372 V, VII | upon the hill extending to Fronzole. The count finding himself 1373 IV, I | Modigliana, and an intense frost having rendered the ditches 1374 II, I | cultivation the earth becomes fruitful, and the air is purified 1375 VII, V | become considerable, they fruitlessly endeavored to effect what 1376 IV, IV | not want an opportunity of frustrating their labors, either by 1377 VI, VI | an effort to prevent the fulfillment of his design; and Gherardo 1378 VII, V | extravagance in dress, feasts, and funerals.~In the midst of this universal 1379 V, III | Marca to the care of Il Furlano, one of his principal condottieri, 1380 VII, I | with all the ornaments, furniture, and utensils suitable for 1381 II, III | qualify these laws, and, in furtherance of so good a result, be 1382 VI, II | the count—The Venetians furtively deprive the count of Cremona.~ 1383 VIII, IV | by convincing them of the futility of their efforts. To establish 1384 II, VII | of the guard, of Jacopo Gabrielli of Agobbio, and endowed 1385 III, III | the false title of honest gains. Those who either from imprudence 1386 IV, III | opposite character occurred at Galeata, where Zanobi del Pino was 1387 II, I | Tidaldini, Giuochi, and Galigai. Besides the noble families 1388 VI, I | Piccinino; but they were gallantly defended by his son Francesco. 1389 VII, II | dukedom sixteen years, and Galleazzo, his son, succeeded him.~ 1390 II, III | destroyed the houses of the Galletti, on account of a member 1391 II, I | Malespini, Scolari, Guidi, Galli, Cappiardi, Lamberti, Soldanieri, 1392 VIII, VI | kingdom of Naples, taken Gallipoli, and harassed the neighboring 1393 II, IV | which first broke out at the garden of St. Michael, in the houses 1394 I, III | erected a fortress upon Mount Gargano, by means of which they 1395 I, II | Suavi, and Alans, held Gascony and Spain; the Vandals, 1396 I, III | Italy; for the Lombards, gathering strength, offended the pope 1397 VI, II | whole day exposed to the gaze of the people. Baldaccio 1398 II, I | Volterra, Colle, and San Gemigniano rebelled. Thus Florence 1399 VII, IV | that territory for many generations. This ambitious method of 1400 VI, IV | necessity, but supplied him generously from his own resources, 1401 VI, VI | canzone which begins, “Spirto gentil che quelle membra reggi,” 1402 I, VI | of the Marca and Urbino; Gentile da Varano, of Camerino; 1403 IV, VII | Palla Strozzi, a peaceable, gentle, and humane person, better 1404 III, III | magistracy, thinking that by our gentleness we should overcome your 1405 III, II | Alberti, Tommaso Strozzi, and Georgio Scali, who all promised 1406 VIII, VII | those evil plants began to germinate, which in a little time 1407 Int, 0(1)| is to be found in Mohl, Gesch. u. Liter. der Staatswissenshaften, 1408 VI, IV | exhibit either by words or gestures any unusual excitement, 1409 Int | clash, the latter generally gets the upper hand. And will 1410 VI, III | Arrigo de’ Conti, of the Gherardesca, took some castles, and 1411 III, II | of their country to their ghostly consolations, and thus showed 1412 I, VII | Attenduli, il Tartaglia, Giacopaccio, Cecolini da Perugia, Niccolo 1413 I, VII | up, took for her husband Giacopo della Marca, a Frenchman 1414 II, VIII| retired into the palace, and Giannozzo Cavalcanti, who having withdrawn 1415 V, VI | parties, they sent Neri di Gini Capponi and Giuliano Davanzati 1416 VII, V | together, among whom, Giorgio Ginori, a knight of Rhodes, took 1417 III, IV | Lion and of the Vaio, under Giovenco della Stufa and Giovanni 1418 V, I | to the Latin custom, Ex Girfalco nostro Firmiano, invito 1419 III, VII | Benedetto degli Spini, Antonio Girolami, Cristofano di Carlone, 1420 III, IV | sword with which he was girt, seriously wounded, and 1421 VIII, II | escaped punishment by flight; Giulielmo dePazzi was banished, 1422 VIII, II | months after his death, named Giulio, who was endowed with that 1423 II, I | Elisei, Abati, Tidaldini, Giuochi, and Galigai. Besides the 1424 Int, 0(1)| 521-91. See also La Vita e gli scritti di Niccolo Machiavelli 1425 VII, III | with least observation, glide into the ranks of his friends. 1426 VII, II | citizens, anxious to catch a glimpse of him, while shouts of “ 1427 II, III | which seemed occasionally to glow, was that which naturally 1428 II, VIII| be satisfied, that having glutted the external senses, the 1429 I, IV | the most powerful were Godfred and the Countess Matilda 1430 I, IV | cross. The leaders were Godfrey, Eustace, and Baldwin of 1431 I, I | people, entered, led by Godogo their king. Odoacer conquered 1432 III, IV | Gonfalons, the ensign of the Golden Lion and of the Vaio, under 1433 V, II | forces they halted at San Gonda. Piccinino then demanded 1434 Int | downfall of Pier Soderini, Gonfaloniere of the Florentine Republic, 1435 I, VI | the Della Scala, Filippo Gonzao of Mantua, the Carrara, 1436 VIII, IV | place greatly addicted to gossip, and in which actions are 1437 I, V | Charles, being at Rome and governing the city by virtue of his 1438 VIII, VI | dominion. These the Bank governs and protects, and every 1439 VII, II | to give their purpose a graceful covering, adopted upon their 1440 V, III | Signory, not to appear less gracious than the pope, granted to 1441 IV, VI | and then another to higher grades of honor. Therefore, to 1442 VIII, I | this family, had given his granddaughter, Bianca, to Guglielmo, hoping 1443 VII, I | Tornabuoni. He gave his granddaughters, the children of Piero, 1444 IV, II | advises the restoration of the GrandiNiccolo da Uzzano wishes 1445 I, II | might provide for them, by granting some country in which they 1446 III, III | that in a few years they grasped the entire government of 1447 VII, V | un magro accordo che una grassa vittoria.”2 On the other 1448 VI, VII | open enmity; a circumstance gratifying to Ferrando, who saw in 1449 VI, I | their enemies, to distribute gratuities to the people, reduce taxation, 1450 VI, I | the field without a new gratuity. Hence it followed, that 1451 II, VII | to him patiently. He very gravely, but without the use of 1452 II, I | especially the lower classes, greedy for spoil, sacked and destroyed 1453 II, V | castle situated in the Val di Greve, and anciently belonging 1454 III, III | make all the difference. It grieves me much to think that some 1455 V, I | some of the family of the Grifoni, and expelled from the city 1456 VI, II | servants, that one of them, a groom, disclosed the place of 1457 VII, V | their councils, declaring it grossly improper that a source of 1458 VIII, I | and the pope many fresh grounds of offense, before the matter 1459 V, III | the towns, destroying the growing crops, grain, trees, and 1460 I, VI | influence of Ezelin having grown powerful, seeds of the same 1461 II, I | Giandonati, Gianfigliazzi, Scali, Gualterotti, Importuni, Bostichi, Tornaquinci, 1462 VIII, IV | duke in the power of his guardians, and involved in domestic 1463 III, IV | else, under pretense of guarding the lower doors, left the 1464 III, IV | Council and Signory; and Guerrente Marignolli, one of the latter, 1465 IV, VII | leave the apartment, and he, guessing the cause, under pretense 1466 II, VIII| of it, to receive them as guests. As the report of the duke’ 1467 VIII, III | given to his daughters, and GuidAntonio Vespucci, a man 1468 II, I | Gherardini, Foraboschi, Bagnesi, Guidalotti, Sacchetti, Manieri, Lucardesi, 1469 IV, III | something for our present guidance; and if in former times 1470 VIII, IV | ambassador to the pope, Guidantonio Vespucci, who had recently 1471 II, I | Infangati, Malespini, Scolari, Guidi, Galli, Cappiardi, Lamberti, 1472 III, I | with those whose common guilt, either against their country 1473 I, VI | Adriatic Sea, now called the Gulf of Venice, carrying with 1474 II, I | common adage, Cosa fatta capo ha. Thereupon, they appointed 1475 VI, IV | both thine enemies; thou hadst abandoned the Florentines 1476 VIII, IV | mind surrounded him with a halo of majesty brighter than 1477 V, VI | di Poppi advised him to halt in these parts, arguing 1478 VI, VI | thence into the Siennese, and halting in the country, took possession 1479 III, I | was he expelled than we handled our arms, and fought with 1480 VIII, III | right to detain cardinals, hang bishops, murder, mangle, 1481 VIII, III | memorable rout of the Romans, by Hannibal, the Carthaginian general, 1482 IV, IV | opposed to the war. It seems hardly credible that such contrary 1483 IV, II | of their own particular hardships, but censured the tax generally 1484 III, VII | art my friend, do me any harm.” Then, turning toward the 1485 V, VII | factious community, which in an harmonious one would have done him 1486 Int | equality.”~No man has been more harshly judged than Machiavelli, 1487 III, II | their hopes of the future harvest, upon the approach of spring, 1488 IV, VI | poisoned, and are evidently hastening your end with hunger. You 1489 VIII, VI | and private reasons for hating that monarch; and Signor 1490 VII, I | those serious enmities and hatreds which ensued between Ferrando 1491 II, VI | done enough for Prato in hazarding the safety of Florence on 1492 VI, III | timid, and averse to all hazardous undertakings, chose rather 1493 I, V | Ghibellines. The Guelphs were headed by a legate of the pope; 1494 IV, V | reward good conduct, and heap censure upon whatever appears 1495 VI, V | short time previously had heaped on him all the slanders 1496 VI, VII | and dwellings were laid in heaps; nothing was heard but the 1497 VI, IV | and to prove with what heartless ingratitude thou hast repaid 1498 V, IV | goodness, either in their own hearts, or their children’s; and 1499 IV, VII | where he was received with a hearty welcome. Thus Rinaldo’s 1500 V, VII | this, the men-at-arms, or heavy-armed horse, who had been taken


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