The eleventh chapter of the _Principe_ gives a short sketch of the growth of the temporal power, so framed as to be acceptable to the Medici, but steeped in the most acid irony.

See, in particular, the sentence 'Costoro solo hanno stati e non li difendono, hanno sudditi e non li governano,' etc.
[3] See the dispatch quoted by Gregorovius, _Stadt Rom_, vol.
vii.p.7, note.
[4] _Op.Ined.Ricordi_ No.28.

Compare Ariosto, Satire i.
208-27.
[5] Guicciardini had been secretary and vicegerent of the Medicean Popes.

See back, p.

206.
These utterances are all the more remarkable because they do not proceed from the deep sense of holiness which animated reformers like Savonarola.