7/91 St.It._ vol.i.); and Machiavelli's _Discorso sul Reggimento di Firenze_, addressed to Leo X., illustrate in general the working of Aristotelian ideas. At Florence, in 1495, Savonarola urged his Constitution on the burghers by appeals to Aristotle's doctrine and to the example of Venice [see Segni, p. 15, and compare the speeches of Pagolo Antonio Soderini and Guido Antonio Vespucci, in Guicciardini's _Istoria d' Italia_, vol.ii.p. 155 of Rosini's edition, on the same occasion]. |