292, for Boccalini's account of the Siege of Forli, sustained by Caterina in 1488.

Compare Sismondi, vol.vii.

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251.] Caterina Riario Sforza, as a woman, was no unworthy inheritor of her grandfather's personal heroism and genius for government.
[3] I shall have to notice the evils of this system in another place, while reviewing the _Principe_ of Machiavelli.

In that treatise the Florentine historian traces the whole ruin of Italy during the sixteenth century to the employment of mercenaries.
The biography of one of these Condottieri deserves special notice, since it illustrates the vicissitudes of fortune to which such men were exposed, as well as their relations to their patrons.

Francesco Carmagnuola was a Piedmontese.