Fior._ end of book ii.
[5] _Archivio Storico_, vol.xvi.See also the article 'Perugia,' in my _Sketches in Italy and Greece_.
[6] Vol.iii.p.

347.
[7] See App.ii.for the phrases 'Squittino' and 'Borse.' [8] Of these new nobles the Albizzi and Ricci, deadly foes, were the most eminent.

The former strove to exclude the Medici from the government.
[9] The number of the Arti varied at different times.

Varchi treats of them as finally consisting of seven maggiori and fourteen minori.
[10] Proemio to _Storia Fiorentina_.

'In Florence the nobles first split up, then the nobles and the people, lastly the people and the multitude; and it often happened that when one of these parties got the upper hand, it divided into two camps.' For the meaning of _Popolo_ see above, p.