We may compare the whole of Guicciardini's elaborate essay 'Del Reggimento di Firenze' (_Op.

Ined._ vol.ii.), as well as the 'Discourses' addressed by Alessandro de' Pazzi, Francesco Vettori, Ruberto Acciaiuoli, Francesco Guicciardini, and Luigi Guicciardini, to the Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, on the settlement of the Florentine Constitution in 1522 (_Arch.

Stor._ vol.i.).

Not one of these men doubted that his nostrum would effect the cure of the republic undermined by slow consumption.
[2] _St.Fior._ lib.vi.cap.

4; vol.i.p.