It casts much curious light, moreover, on the relations between paid _bravi_ and their employers, the esteem in which professional cutthroats were held, and their connection with the police of the Italian towns.

It is published in a tract concerning Lorenzino, Milano, Daelli, 1862.
[3] See the instructions given by the Venetian government to their agents for the purchase of poison and the hiring of secret murderers.

See also the Maxims laid down by Sarpi.
[4] This at least was accounted eccentric and barbarous in the extreme.

See Pontano, _de Immanitate_, vol.i.p.

326, concerning Niccolo Fortibraccio, Antonio, Pontadera, and the Riccio Montechiaro, who stabbed and strangled for the pleasure of seeing men die.