57.
[4] See, however, what I have already said about Castiglione and his ideal of the courtier in Chapter III.

We must remember that he represents a late period of the Renaissance.
[5] It is curious to compare, for example, the part played by Italians, especially by Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Amalfi, as contractors and merchants in the Crusades, with the enthusiasm of the northern nations.
[6] In confirmation of this view I may call attention to Giannotti's critique of the Florentine constitution (Florence, 1850, vol.i.pp.

15 and 156), and to what Machiavelli says about Gianpaolo Baglioni (_Disc_.i.

27), 'Gli uomini non sanno essere _onorevolmente_ tristi'; men know not how to be bad with credit to themselves.

The context proves that Gianpaolo failed to win the honor of a signal crime.