I accept the theory of Alberti's authorship.
[2] A beautiful description of the religious temper, p.

74.
[3] What Pandolfini says about the beauty of the body is worthy of a Greek: what he says about exercise might have been written by an Englishman, p.

77.
[4] Pp.

82-89 are very important as showing how low the art of politics had sunk in Italy.
[5] P.125.
[6] P.175.
The charm of a treatise like that of Pandolfini on the family evaporates as soon as we try to make a summary of its contents.

Enough, however, has been quoted to show the thoroughly _bourgeois_ tone which prevailed among the citizens of Florence in the fifteenth century.[1] Very important results were the natural issue of this commercial spirit in the State.