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The Florentine History, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
The Florentine History Vol 1 of 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Niccolo Machiavelli LETTER DEDICATORY to the most holy and blessed father our lord clement the seventh his humble servant niccolö machiavelli Most Blessed and Holy Father, from the time when your Holiness, then in a less exalted station, first charged me to write the History of the Florentine people, I have used all diligence, and therewith whatever skill Nature or... more » Experience hath given me, to satisfy your wishes. And being now come to treat of those times wherein by the death of the Magnificent , Lorenzo de' Medici the face of affairs in Italy became changed, and having to discourse of the events that followed thereafter in a fuller and loftier style, suited to their greater dignity and importance, I have thought fit to reduce all that I have written concerning matters of earlier date into a single volume, and present it to your Holiness, that you may begin in some part to taste the fruits of the seed sown by you, whereon I have laboured. In reading these writings your Holiness will see in the first
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PAGE; LETTER DEDICATORY i; THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE 5; BOOK I 11; BOOK II 76; BOOK III 160; BOOK IV 227; INDEX 289
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