[20] Galluzzi, ibid., vol. ii, and Ammirato, last vol.

[21] Galluzzi, ibid., vol. ii.

[22] Morbio, History of the Italian Communalities, p. 27.

[23] Machiavelli, On the Nature of the French.

[24] Machiavelli, Sketches on French Affairs.

[25] Che fortuna "qualunque estolle, il tuffa prima in Lete."—Ariosto, Satires.

[26]

Martirio in terra appellasi,

Gloria si appella in cielo.

Beatrice Tenda, by Tedaldi-Fores, a young poet who died in the flower of his youth.