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ENDNOTES

^*Long prior, therefore, to Machiavelli’s writing “The Prince,” which was not until 1516, the early part of the sixteenth century.

^*See “Privilèges accordés à la Couronne de France par le Saint Siége,” 1852, Imprimerie Impériale.

^*Book III. Chap. XL. See Vol. II. p. 419.

^*This lady is presumed to have been Alphonsina Orsini, the widow of Piero, and mother of Lorenzo de’ Medici.

^*

“La notte che mori Pier Soderini
L’ alma n’ ando dell’ Inferno alla bocca.
E Pluto la grido: Anima sciocca,
Che Inferno? Va nel Limbo de Bambini.”

The night when Peter Soderini died,
His soul for entrance into Hell applied.
But Pluto shouted: Hence, thou simple soul!
This is no place for you. Go to the infant’s Limbo, fool!

^*See Discourses on Livy, Book I. Chap. XII.

^*“On the Tarpeian Mount, O Muse, thou ’lt see a knight honored by all Italy, and more devoted to the interests of others than his own.”

^*This Giulio de’ Medici afterwards became Pope under the name of Clement VII.