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At the same time he admitted the feebleness and insufficiency of many of these men, called from a low rank of life and from mechanical trades to the administration of the commonwealth. The state of Florence under Piero Soderini that 'non mai abbastanza lodato cavaliere, as he calls him was the ideal to which he reverted with longing eyes.
It will be remembered that Savonarola was now dead, but that his constitution still existed under the presidency of Pietro Soderini the non mai abbastanza lodato Cavaliere, as Pitti calls him, the anima sciocca of Machiavelli's epigram.
It was he who taught all the boys in Soglio to make a noise. Before he came up there was no sound to be heard in the streets, except the fountains and the bells. I asked him whether the curate was good to him. "Si," he replied, "e abbastanza buono." I should think Auld Robin Gray was "abbastanza buono" to Mrs. Gray.
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