for personal injuries, omitted to relieve Rome when it was being plundered by the Lutherans, though he held the commission of the Italian League.

Malatesta Baglioni sold Florence, which he had undertaken to defend, to the Imperial army under the Prince of Orange.
[5] 'With the records of these indolent princes and most abject armaments, my history will, therefore, be filled.' Compare the following passage in a letter from Machiavelli to Francesco Guicciardini (_Op._ vol.x.p.

255): 'Comincio ora a scrivere di nuovo, e mi sfogo accusando i principi, che hanno fatto ogni cosa per condurci qui.'.