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Excerpt from The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent, Vol. 2
The fituation of Italy at this period afforded an ample field for the exercife of political talents. The number of independent fiates of which'it was compofed, the inequality of their firength. The ambitious views'of fome, and the ever active fears of others, kept the whole country in continual agitation and alarm: The vicmlty of thefe fiates to each other, and the narrow bounds of their refpee'tive dominions, required a promptitude'of decifion in cafes of difagreem'ent, unexampled in any fubfequent period of modern hifiory. Vvhere the event of open war feemed doubtful, private treachery was without fcruple reforted to and where that failed of fuccefs, an appeal was again made to arms. The pontifical fee had itfelfet the example of a mode of conduct that burl't alunder all the bonds of fociety, and operated as a convincing proof that nothing was thought un lawful which appeared to be expedient. To counterpoife all the jarring interefis of thefe different governments, to refirain. The powerful, to fuccour(5) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
