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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... whilst Borgia was meditating another stroke of his usual policy . Machiavelli had a foretaste of it at Cesena , where a certain Rimino , a confidential agent of Borgia , and , as such , hateful to the people , was suddenly arrested by ...
... whilst Borgia was meditating another stroke of his usual policy . Machiavelli had a foretaste of it at Cesena , where a certain Rimino , a confidential agent of Borgia , and , as such , hateful to the people , was suddenly arrested by ...
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... whilst this has ranked among the greatest of that order . Machiavelli was the first who gave at once a luminous development of great events in their causes and connections , such as we find in the first book of his History of Florence ...
... whilst this has ranked among the greatest of that order . Machiavelli was the first who gave at once a luminous development of great events in their causes and connections , such as we find in the first book of his History of Florence ...
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... whilst Bourbon entered Tuscany , and without staying to attack Florence , hurried on by forced marches and took Rome by assault . Machiavelli followed the Italian army as it advanced to deliver the pope , who was besieged in the Castel ...
... whilst Bourbon entered Tuscany , and without staying to attack Florence , hurried on by forced marches and took Rome by assault . Machiavelli followed the Italian army as it advanced to deliver the pope , who was besieged in the Castel ...
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... whilst the Franks and Bur- gundians not only took Gaul , but each gave their name to the part they occupied ; hence one is called France , the other Burgundy . The good fortune of these brought fresh people to the destruction of the ...
... whilst the Franks and Bur- gundians not only took Gaul , but each gave their name to the part they occupied ; hence one is called France , the other Burgundy . The good fortune of these brought fresh people to the destruction of the ...
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... whilst the Ostrogoths and the Zepidi esta- blished themselves in Pannonia , and the Eruli and the Turingi upon the farther bank of the Danube . Attila having left Italy , Valentinian , emperor of the west , thought of restoring the ...
... whilst the Ostrogoths and the Zepidi esta- blished themselves in Pannonia , and the Eruli and the Turingi upon the farther bank of the Danube . Attila having left Italy , Valentinian , emperor of the west , thought of restoring 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.