The History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent : Together with the Prince, and Various Historical TractsG. Bell, 1898 - 522 pages |
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... obtain if possible further assistance , the republic deputed Francesco della Caza and Machiavelli as envoys to the French court . This was a very delicate mission . Louis XII . and his minister , Cardinal d'Amboise , were prejudiced ...
... obtain if possible further assistance , the republic deputed Francesco della Caza and Machiavelli as envoys to the French court . This was a very delicate mission . Louis XII . and his minister , Cardinal d'Amboise , were prejudiced ...
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... obtain something in return for their friendship . The account of this mission is extremely curious ; there was deep dissimulation on both sides . Borgia hated Florence as much as the Florentines hated him ; but they were both kept in ...
... obtain something in return for their friendship . The account of this mission is extremely curious ; there was deep dissimulation on both sides . Borgia hated Florence as much as the Florentines hated him ; but they were both kept in ...
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... obtain some public employment under the Medici government . Machiavelli , in a letter discovered only in 1810 , and ... obtained . He had commenced the train of thought which was to lead him to the discovery of many important truths ...
... obtain some public employment under the Medici government . Machiavelli , in a letter discovered only in 1810 , and ... obtained . He had commenced the train of thought which was to lead him to the discovery of many important truths ...
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... obtained the means of repairing by sea to Leghorn . Before embarking , he received intelligence of the revolution of Florence . On hearing of the taking of Rome , on the 6th of May , the republicans rose against the Medici , and they ...
... obtained the means of repairing by sea to Leghorn . Before embarking , he received intelligence of the revolution of Florence . On hearing of the taking of Rome , on the 6th of May , the republicans rose against the Medici , and they ...
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... obtained the sovereignty by fraud . Whilst they were designing to hold by force what they had obtained by treachery , the Eruli and the Turingi , who , after the death of Attila , as before remarked , had established themselves upon the ...
... obtained the sovereignty by fraud . Whilst they were designing to hold by force what they had obtained by treachery , the Eruli and the Turingi , who , after the death of Attila , as before remarked , had established themselves upon the ...
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Page 521 - English Translation on opposite pages, Notes, Introduction, and Glossary, by Rev. S. Fox, MA To which is added the Anglo-Saxon Version of the METRES OF BOETHIUS, with a free Translation by Martin F.