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3001 VI, IV | perjuries, if violated faith, if treacheries displease him, and if, as
3002 VI, I | enabled them to fill their treasuries with gold and silver won
3003 VI, I | speak, first emptied the treasury, and then impoverished the
3004 III, I | ordinances, peace, wars, and treaties are adopted and pursued,
3005 Int | connection with these two treatises, it being, in fact, a further
3006 VII, I | Fiesole, Craggiulo, and Trebbio, each, for size and grandeur,
3007 I, IV | popes caused all the west to tremble with their censures, the
3008 V, III | against Lucca frustrated, and trembled for the safety of their
3009 I, III | the bishops of Magonza, Treveri, and Colonia. This occurred
3010 II, VII | themselves, having acquired Trevigi and Vicenza, made peace
3011 I, V | subdued the whole of the Trevisian March, but could not prevail
3012 I, VI | Baroncegli seized upon the tribunate of Rome, and expelled the
3013 II, VIII| return to the city daily in triumph over her enemies, what could
3014 V, VII | and the whole city, in triumphal pomp.~
3015 VIII, V | after this victory, returned triumphantly to Rome, but did not long
3016 VI, VII | which John was routed near Troia, in the year 1463. He was,
3017 VI, I | Francesco Barbadico and Pagolo Trono were present for the Venetians,
3018 V, V | Dutchman, disguised as a trooper, passed through them without
3019 III, VI | to the citizens, or less troublesome at its commencement than
3020 I, II | surely if any times were truly miserable for Italy and
3021 VI, VI | bring with him his most trust-worthy friends, and himself promised
3022 II, VIII| if they had been the most trustworthy of men; so that in a short
3023 II, VI | Castruccio so much, that without trying the fortune of battle, he
3024 III, IV | again took arms, and coming tumultuously into the court of the palace,
3025 II, IV | authority between these turbulent parties, and provide the
3026 Int, 0(1)| Machiavellismo, by O. Tommasini, Turin, 1883 (unfinished).~The
3027 V, I | first under the ancient Tuscans, and afterward under the
3028 VIII, VII | ambition of Lodovico Sforza, tutor to the duke of Milan; and
3029 VI, VI | Un cavalier, ch’ Italia tutta onora,~Pensoso piu d’altrui,
3030 V, V | Paduan territory on the twentieth of June. The arrival of
3031 VI, II | being agreed upon, on the twenty-fifth of June, 1445, he attacked
3032 VI, VI | concluded a treaty of peace for twenty-five years. King Alfonso alone
3033 VI, VII | and unaccountable. On the twenty-fourth of August, about an hour
3034 I, VII | acquire influence, created twenty-nine cardinals. At this time
3035 Int | short work, divided into twenty-six books, is the best known
3036 VII, VI | conspiracy. Girolamo was twenty-three years of age, and exhibited
3037 II, VIII| never took the same road twice together, so that they had
3038 Int | new state, taking for his type and model Cæsar Borgia,
3039 Not | PREPARER’S NOTE~This text was typed up from a Universal Classics
3040 VII, III | who were accustomed to act tyrannically, had secretly taken up arms,
3041 Int, 0(1)| be found in Mohl, Gesch. u. Liter. der Staatswissenshaften,
3042 II, I | were the Uberti, Manelli, Ubriachi, Fifanti, Amidei, Infangati,
3043 V, V | inconvenient by a tower called the Uccellino, which being held for the
3044 I, VI | princes of Italy, but to the ultramontane kings. These states entered
3045 VII, V | Meglio un magro accordo che una grassa vittoria.”2 On the
3046 VIII, I | their going about the city unaccompanied and without suspicion, and
3047 VII, IV | myself greatly deceived, unacquainted with the ambition of mankind,
3048 VIII, II | promptitude, anxiety, love, and unanimity of the whole city my brother
3049 VII, I | distress, he relieved him unasked. His magnificence is evident
3050 III, V | richest citizens, a man of unassuming manners, an ardent lover
3051 V, VII | return, to leave nothing unattempted, he determined to engage
3052 VIII, VI | However, the victory was not unattended by misfortune, for Count
3053 IV, IV | come upon the Volterrani unawares, assembled their cavalry,
3054 VI, IV | or that he would preserve unblemished that faith towards us which
3055 V, IV | holiness deserved, for having unblushingly attempted to divide two
3056 VI, I | him assume such a tone of unbounded insolence, that, losing
3057 V, IV | the Venetians, who with unceasing importunity demanded the
3058 IV, III | and in self-defense they unceasingly decried it, declaring it
3059 I, VI | which the people made of the uncivil behavior of the Germans,
3060 VI, IV | open them; God himself will unclose them, if perjuries, if violated
3061 Int | exposed in such a skillful and uncompromising manner by Machiavelli in
3062 VII, I | complain of the republic, he uncovered his head, and asked them
3063 V, II | to blame in leaving her uncured, than by using this remedy
3064 III, I | and thus unhonored and undefended they sink into oblivion.~“
3065 V, VI | faithful, and the rapid current undermining the banks has left them
3066 IV, V | church, with an inscription underneath, which still bears testimony
3067 III, II | of which he was either undeserving, or others thought him so,
3068 Int | to this prince, shows his undisguised admiration for the courage
3069 V, III | cattle, and leaving nothing undone to injure the enemy. The
3070 VII, II | and at their deaths, its unencumbered reversion to their heirs.
3071 V, V | the city, which it divides unequally, giving much the larger
3072 VIII, II | they are so unusual, so unexampled, and (as I trust you believe)
3073 VIII, II | remedy would be sure and unfailing, for I would not be so base
3074 V, I | for his loss or by some unfair means, he died in a few
3075 VIII, II | our account you would act unfairly to any of your citizens;
3076 VIII, IV | Venetians were lukewarm and unfaithful, and the duke in the power
3077 IV, VII | Rinaldo, finding his advice unfavorably received, vexed at his own
3078 Int, 0(1)| Tommasini, Turin, 1883 (unfinished).~The best English translation
3079 VII, IV | new one, which innumerable unforeseen causes may overthrow. When
3080 VIII, V | the marquis’s affairs were unfortunately situated, while those of
3081 VIII, I | arise animosities, and not unfrequently his ruin. Thus these conspiracies
3082 VI, V | ambassadors felt convinced of his unfriendly disposition, and observed
3083 II, III | perfect amity together. This ungenial disposition, while their
3084 III, III | honor, What is there yet ungranted, that you can, with any
3085 IV, I | remained pent in their bosoms, ungratified and unquenched. Those nobles
3086 IV, I | which were afterward so unhappily revived by Salvestro de’
3087 II, VII | impropriety of judging them unheard, and at length induced them
3088 IV, IV | and that his words were unheeded; he would, however, predict
3089 III, I | the wicked do, and thus unhonored and undefended they sink
3090 IV, I | associates of Niccolo were uninfluenced by his remarks; for they
3091 IV, IV | and the treaty being yet uninfringed on either side, they bethought
3092 IV, I | toward each other, and their uninterrupted possession of power, destroyed
3093 VI, VII | waters, heavens, and entire universe, mingling together, were
3094 V, I | was obtained. It was made unlawful to write to or to receive
3095 VIII, V | its conclusion was equally unlooked for and injurious; for Mahomet
3096 II, I | de’ Bardi reproved him in unmeasured terms as a man of little
3097 VII, III | faithful, should now prove unmerciful, or that you could cancel
3098 VII, I | party ridiculed the idea so unmercifully, that the man’s mind actually
3099 II, I | and rendered her rivers unnavigable, caused the Genoese to migrate
3100 VI, VII | as the war which he had unnecessarily caused Jacopo Piccinino
3101 III, I | one becomes dominant and unopposed, it must of necessity soon
3102 V, VII | adopted, Niccolo led his army, unperceived by the enemy, from Citta
3103 IV, II | several discontented, some unpropitious event may be constantly
3104 II, III | the perpetrators escaped unpunished, under the protection of
3105 IV, VII | concourse of people, or such unqualified demonstrations of regard
3106 IV, I | bosoms, ungratified and unquenched. Those nobles of the people,
3107 IV, VI | Real evils were magnified, unreal ones feigned, and the true
3108 I, VII | France or the Visconti, lived unrespected, and may be enumerated among
3109 IV, V | thing it was to serve an unruly people and a divided city,
3110 VII, III | should think themselves unsafe with him in Florence, having
3111 VIII, V | treaty, on account of the unsatisfactory state of their finances,
3112 I, III | papacy; but on account of his unseemly appellation, he took the
3113 IV, I | removed by death, or become unserviceable by misfortune.~Hence, it
3114 VII, VI | stood by with the sword unsheathed, ready to deprive him of
3115 VI, I | victorious at Anghiari, made an unsuccessful attack upon Furli and Bologna,
3116 V, VI | suspected, and having attempted unsuccessfully to tamper with the legate
3117 IV, VII | offenders ought either to remain untouched, or be destroyed; that there
3118 V, II | looked upon as ambitious and unwarrantable, it will now be considered
3119 IV, VI | bountiful to all; and by the unwearied generosity of his disposition,
3120 VII, VI | the Florentines, by their unwillingness to support him, had deprived
3121 VI, VI | advised, that in order to uphold the influence of his friends,
3122 V, IV | rising from their seats, with uplifted hands, and most of them
3123 III, I | the faction that has been uppermost at the time. Hence it follows
3124 VIII, V | during the last fifty years, upward of a thousand dead being
3125 IV, II | an appointed hour, when upwards of seventy citizens assembled
3126 V, VII | longer to preserve the least urbanity of demeanor, he ceded the
3127 III, I | country, would most strongly urge you. It is true the corruption
3128 VIII, VI | found them near him, and urging his flight reached Ravenna
3129 I, I | against his sons Henry and Uric, slew the one and compelled
3130 VII, IV | each gave hopes of future usefulness to the republic.~Among the
3131 VIII, IV | of the war, the expenses uselessly incurred, and the taxes
3132 IV, VI | from any of her citizens usurping the sovereignty, but if
3133 I, II | the Danube which had been vacated by the Eruli and Turingi,
3134 I, VII | ordained that everyone, upon vacating a benefice, should pay a
3135 V, II | could not believe that a vacillating defender of his own country’
3136 III, IV | the Golden Lion and of the Vaio, under Giovenco della Stufa
3137 VIII, IV | him to his duchess for her valet. He, either from his personal
3138 III, IV | being passed, to render them valid they sent two of their body
3139 III, I | promises have lost their validity, and are kept as long as
3140 VI, VII | hill which separates the valleys of Pisa and Grieve. Between
3141 V, I | Venice, where the Venetians, valuing the friendship of Cosmo
3142 V, VII | became mingled with the van, and occasioned the utmost
3143 II, III | leaders, Forese Adimari, Vanni de Mozzi, and Geri Spini.
3144 VI, VII | overcharged volume of condensed vapor burst; its fragments contended
3145 Int | task for which his long and varied political experience, and
3146 IV, III | that if movable property varies, the taxes would also vary,
3147 IV, III | varies, the taxes would also vary, and frequently rating it
3148 I, VII | although they contended with varying success, the queen at length
3149 VI, II | capture, took refuge in a vault of his house, used for storing
3150 VI, VI | il Monte Tarpejo canzon vedra,~Un cavalier, ch’ Italia
3151 V, V | the lake, left his camp at Vegasio, and with a body of picked
3152 V, IV | Lombardy proceeded with greater vehemence than ever; the Venetians
3153 VI, VII | in circles with intense velocity, and accompanied by winds,
3154 VIII, IV | Pasha Achmet, approached Velona, and, either from observing
3155 V, II | town of San Giovanni alla Vena. This enterprise, though
3156 I, VI | the seas, and was held in veneration throughout Italy. This was
3157 I, VII | anti-pope, came to Porto Venere, and Gregory to Lucca, where
3158 I, VI | province anciently called Venetia, driven by the same events,
3159 VI, V | distress, fell Lionardo Veniero, the Venetian ambassador.
3160 I, IV | and submit to the pope at Venus, where a pacification was
3161 VII, V | on being conducted to a veranda which looked upon the piazza,
3162 I, VII | Lombardy had become lord of Vercelli, Alessandria, Novara, and
3163 VII, I | and the monastery of Santa Verdiana; in the mountains of Fiesole,
3164 II, VII | castle of Mangona and that of Vernia; and enacted a law which
3165 VII, VI | tongue, in which he was well versed: “Mors acerba, fama perpetua,
3166 VI, VI | greatest confidence from those verses of Petrarch in the canzone
3167 I, V | Nephews of the popes—Sicilian vespers—The Emperor Rodolph allows
3168 VIII, II | had taken refuge in the vestry, he was prevented.~In the
3169 VII, VI | in the sleeves of their vests, struck at him. Lampognano
3170 VIII, VII | Guicciardini and Pietro Vettori, they sent it against the
3171 VII, VI | acerba, fama perpetua, stabit vetus memoria facti.”~The enterprise
3172 VI, II | known to all. The shame and vexation of Bartolommeo were extreme,
3173 IV, VII | advice unfavorably received, vexed at his own misfortune and
3174 VIII, III | displeased with that of his viceregent, and allow his injured people
3175 III, VI | families endeavoring to vie with the state itself in
3176 Int | accomplished. He wrote from the view-point of the politician,—not of
3177 I, II | performance of an honourable work. Viewing the ruins of Rome, he determined
3178 III, I | his majesty, one of the vilest of men born at Agobbio.~“
3179 VI, IV | commenced in deceit and villainy, will terminate either in
3180 VI, VII | his fleet to Porto, below Villamarina, when he died after a sudden
3181 Int, 0(1)| Villari, Niccolo Machiavelli e i
3182 V, V | castle situated between the Vincentino and the Veronese, and entrenched
3183 III, IV | not granted they would be vindicated by force. This deputation,
3184 V, III | crops, grain, trees, and vines, driving away the cattle,
3185 V, III | to any terms that could violate their liberty. They then
3186 IV, IV | consecrated places, and violating the women, both married
3187 VII, VI | ejaculated the name of the Virgin, as if imploring her assistance.
3188 VIII, VII | assembled their forces under Virginio Orsino, at Pisa, and complained
3189 IV, V | the women, dishonored the virgins, and dragging them from
3190 I, VI | son called the Count of Virtu, who after the death of
3191 III, VI | usually called the Count of Virtú, imprisoned his uncle Bernabo,
3192 II, I | Arrigucci, Agli, Sizi, Adimari, Visdomini, Donati, Passi, della Bella,
3193 VI, VII | daylight made the desolation visible, the inhabitants were transfixed
3194 VII, II | time Piero’s power would be visibly diminished, and, as a consequence
3195 VIII, VII | supernatural genius, after visiting every court of Europe, induced
3196 II, VI | Emperor Louis of Bavaria visits Italy—The excitement he
3197 Int, 0(1)| III., 521-91. See also La Vita e gli scritti di Niccolo
3198 I, II | Justinian, and Joannes and Vitalis were appointed in his place.
3199 VIII, VI | better to obtain Niccolo Vitello as his friend than to renew
3200 I, V | endure his power, withdrew to Viterbo, and solicited the Emperor
3201 III, I | has infested and still vitiates your own; for when this
3202 I, II | misfortune, and elected Vitiges in his stead, who, after
3203 VII, V | magro accordo che una grassa vittoria.”2 On the other hand, Lorenzo
3204 IV, IV | The ambassador was Jacopo Viviani, who, a short time previously,
3205 II, III | favorable to the nobility, viz.: the Mancini, Magalotti,
3206 II, I | overflowing, while others are void; and if there be no method
3207 III, IV | consultation, the impatient and volatile multitude entered the piazza,
3208 Int, 0(1)| Osgood & Co., Boston, 1882, 4 vols. 8vo.
3209 IV, IV | increased by his son Cosmo.~The Volterran ambassadors grew weary of
3210 VI, VII | this vast and overcharged volume of condensed vapor burst;
3211 I, I | their aid; and these under Vortigern their king, first defended,
3212 IV, VI | come either to arms or to votes, we should not be able to
3213 VII, V | it was said, to fulfill a vow, came to Florence, where
3214 III, VII | avenging themselves, and vowed they would use it whenever
3215 I, VI | frequent use of their ships in voyages to Asia, the island of Candia
3216 I, VI | subsistence elsewhere; and voyaging with their ships to every
3217 Not | edition, published in 1901 by W. Walter Dunne, New York
3218 III, II | respects suitable, he who waits for the concurrence of every
3219 VI, VII | of Giovanni Corvini the Waiwode, who commanded the Hungarian
3220 V, VII | everyone was unarmed, and some wandering from the camp, either led
3221 II, I | German emperors was in its wane, all the places of Italy
3222 IV, VII | going for something that was wanted on the table, left them
3223 II, I | ashamed of taking part in such wanton destruction.~The nobility
3224 VII, VI | they will either embrace or ward off their dangers. This
3225 II, I | merchants to wish for commodious warehouses for the reception of their
3226 VIII, II | proved that I possess more warm and resolute friends than
3227 III, VII | which his past life had not warranted; for never having done anything
3228 I, VII | power, he began to think of warring with Tuscany and of prosecuting
3229 IV, V | and the city of Lucca, the wastes of the river might be made
3230 VII, VI | neighbors, intended to turn a watercourse into his estate; but that
3231 VIII, IV | large sums of money from the wealthiest citizens by way of fines,
3232 IV, IV | from making use of his own weapon; for with it he seriously
3233 II, VIII| can subdue, time cannot wear away, nor can any degree
3234 V, IV | necessity, and the others from weariness, would be advocates of peace.
3235 VI, III | cringing), prostrated himself, weeping and begging pardon for the
3236 VI, IV | wrath of the Almighty will weigh heavily upon thee; and we
3237 III, VII | themselves from the slavery which weighed so heavily upon them; declaring
3238 V, III | The Florentines used the weightiest arguments they could adopt
3239 IV, VII | was received with a hearty welcome. Thus Rinaldo’s delay at
3240 II, IV | contrary happened, for he was welcomed, not punished by them; and
3241 II, IV | that the Priors and all well-disposed men were in hourly apprehension
3242 VI, IV | city. The Venetians, having well-grounded fears that Brescia would
3243 II, I | The bishop was naturally a well-meaning man, but his want of firmness
3244 V, I | greatness (which under a well-organized monarchy might have been
3245 VI, IV | complained, women and children wept, and all exclaimed against
3246 III, V | a hint to him to fix the wheel of fortune, which, having
3247 | whereas
3248 | wherein
3249 VI, III | years, or a permanent peace, whichsoever the duke should approve;
3250 VI, VII | were, in mutual conflict, whirling in circles with intense
3251 VI, VII | Adriatic near Ancona, a whirlwind, which crossing from east
3252 II, I | unhealthy localities become wholesome when a numerous population
3253 VIII, III | pontificate which he had wickedly attained, he would as impiously
3254 IV, VII | highest station.~Florence, widowed of so great a citizen, one
3255 I, V | will of those who wished to wield them. And thus the too eager
3256 III, IV | the honor against their wills. It was a remarkable peculiarity
3257 VI, IV | own destruction; for thou wilt see that the sufferings
3258 V, V | traverse the country, but winding to the left, along the base
3259 VII, I | is acquired publicly by winning a battle, taking possession
3260 IV, V | doubtful; so that victory wins no applause, error is accused
3261 III, VI | perceives or is acquainted wit their tyrannical and wicked
3262 II, V | Florentines routed—Florence withdraws herself from subjection
3263 VIII, V | thousand foot, could not withstand him. Hence, during the whole
3264 V, VII | bridge. Micheletto bravely withstood the enemy’s charge upon
3265 VII, II | affairs of Romagna, and witnessing a universal peace, thought
3266 VII, I | speeches and replies, grave and witty. When Rinaldo degli Albizzi,
3267 V, VII | supplicate some alleviation of my woe. The recent events which
3268 VIII, III | pope had proved himself a wolf rather than a shepherd,
3269 I, II | arranged with the young woman, that Helmichis, without
3270 III, VII | wondered that those who were wont to take arms upon slight
3271 VI, III | with their army among the woods of Campiglia, the king would
3272 VII, V | the occasion, some of the woodwork became ignited, and the
3273 VIII, II | whether under his apparel he wore a cuirass or other means
3274 III, III | defend themselves must be worried. Therefore we must use force
3275 III, V | were alike in fear; but the worst effects arose from the apprehensions
3276 VI, VI | prisoner, yet Jacopo was worsted, and retreated in disorder
3277 V, VII | bows, and prevent them from wounding the flanks of the horses
3278 VII, III | the way thither an olive wreath was placed upon his head,
3279 I, VII | also died, and Benedict XIII. was appointed his successor.~
3280 Int | let us take Book I., Chap. XV.: “Public affairs are easily
3281 I, VI | About the same period, John XXII. attained the papacy, during
3282 I, VII | with the title of John XXIII. Leaving Bologna, where
3283 VII, I | than to ruin it; that two yards of rose-colored cloth would
3284 Not | by W. Walter Dunne, New York and London. The translator
3285 IV, II | than the former would be zealous for his defense, for mankind
3286 VII, I | He died, however, at the zenith of his glory and in the
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