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Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7)

CHAPTER V
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Vettori: 'Starommi dunque cosi tra i miei cenci, senza trovare uomo che della mia servitu si ricordi, o che creda che io possa esser buono a nulla.

Ma egli e impossibile che io possa star molto cosi, perche io mi logoro,' etc.

Again, Dec.

20, 1514: 'E se la fortuna avesse voluto che i Medici, o in cosa di Firenze o di fuora, o in cose loro particolari o in pubbliche, mi avessino una volta comandato, io sarei contento.' This letter, invaluable to the student of Machiavelli's works, is prejudicial to his reputation.

It was written only ten months after he had been imprisoned and tortured by the Medici, just thirteen months after the republic he had served so long had been enslaved by the princes before whom he was now cringing.


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