324-30.

See, too, Segni, p.

213, and Giannotti, vol.
i.p.341.De Comines describes Siena thus: 'La ville est de tout temps en partialite, et se gouverne plus follement que ville d'Italie.' [3] Siena capitulated, in 1555, to the Spanish troops, who resigned it to Duke Cosmo I.in 1557.
What rendered the growth of parties still more pernicious, as already mentioned, was the smallness of Italian republics.

Varchi reckoned 10,000 _fuochi_ in Florence, 50,000 _bocche_ of seculars, and 20,000 _bocche_ of religious.

According to Zuccagni Orlandini there were 90,000 Florentines in 1495, of whom only 3,200 were burghers.