Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History of Florence: And of the Affairs of Italy; From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent Together With the Prince and Various Historical Tracts
Italy, in' Machiavelli's day, consisted of five great powers and of a larger number of petty States which remained inde pendent without being powerful. The Papacy, Naples, Flor ence, Milan, and Venice overtopped the rest and contended with each other so unscrupulously that there was no real hope of uniting them against a foreign foe, whether it might be France or Spain.
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