[67] Discorsi, i, 56. [↑]

[68] As we saw, Polybius in his day took a similar view, coming as he did from Greece, where military failure had followed on a certain growth of unbelief. Machiavelli was much influenced by Polybius. Villari, ii, 9. [↑]

[69] Cp. Tullo Massarani, Studii di letteratura e d’arte, 1809, p. 96. [↑]

[70] Discorsi, i, 15. [↑]

[71] Id. i, 11, end. [↑]

[72] Villari, ii, 93–94. [↑]

[73] Burckhardt, p. 464; Owen, p. 180, and refs. [↑]

[74] Owen, p. 181. See the whole account of Guicciardini’s rather confused opinions. [↑]

[75] Though Italy had most of what scientific knowledge existed. Burckhardt, p. 292. [↑]

[76] “A man might at the same time be condemned as a heretic in Spain for affirming, and in Italy for denying, the reality of the witches’ nightly rides” (The Pope and the Council, p. 258). [↑]