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One of the first statements that Cæsar was his brother's murderer is found in a despatch of the Ferrarese ambassador at Venice. De novo ho inteso, como de la morte del Duca di Candia fo causa el Cardinale suo fratello. Pigna's despatch to Ercole, Venice, February 22, 1498. Stor. It.

The witch too, while brewing for the French her most attractive potions, mixed with them a deadly poison the virus of a fell disease, memorable in the annals of the modern world, which was destined to infect the nations of Europe from this center, and to prove more formidable to our cities than even the leprosy of the Middle Ages. Stor.

Stor. It. Appendice No. 22, vol. vl. Francesco Vettori held offices of importance on various occasions in the Commonwealth of Florence. In 1520, for example, he entered the Signory; and in 1521 he was Gonfalonier of Justice.

"I cannot go," he said; "my course lies to the left, by the Stor foss. Hast no one to send?" "I will go, father," said a smart girl of fifteen, who had been seated behind her mother, near the couch of the sick man. "Thou, bairn?" "Yes, why not? It is only a league to Hawksdal, where young Eric will gladly relieve me." "True," said the old warrior, with a smile, as he began to don his armour.

Arch. Stor. xvi. 102. See my Sketches in Italy and Greece, p. 84. Cinque Canti, ii. 5. Ricordi Politici, ccxlii. In the history of Italian despotism two points of first-rate importance will demand attention. The first is the process by which the greater tyrannies absorbed the smaller during the fourteenth century.

The discourse addressed to Leo, sulla riforma dello stato di Firenze, may be referred perhaps to 1519. See Pitti, 'Apologia de' Cappucci, Arch. Stor. vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 294.

It all took time, and meanwhile the weather worsened steadily. The rain was snorting down in heavy squalls, and often there were crashes from amongst the pines. But the stor bock's trophies repaid one for these things. At last we got through the obsequies, shouldered the spoils between us, and started. It was slow passage. On this primæval ground one is so constantly being baulked.

Fior., Op. Ined. vol. iii. p. 179; Nardi, Stor. Fior. lib. ii. caps. 16 and 36, may be read with advantage. 'I began' Savonarola writes himself with reference to a course of sermons delivered in 1491 'I began publicly to expound the Revelation in our Church of S. Mark.

Capellmeister Stor, who has conducted your three other operas ever since I left the theatre definitely, will undertake the direction of "Rienzi." Our artists are full of enthusiasm. I shall not talk to you about my coming to Paris until I am able to tell you the exact date; it will be before long. Your WEYMAR, December 2nd, 1860 PARIS, December 15th, 1860. I am very slowly regaining my strength.

Matteo Villani, lib. iii. cap. 78. Osservaz. Stor. di Zefirino Re. MS. Vat. Rip. dal Bzovio, ann. 1353. But less wise than Rienzi, he took the antipapal party. And the Legate was thus enabled to play the papal demagogue against the usurper. Baroncelli was a weak man, his sons committed every excess in mimicry of the highborn tyrants of Padua and Milan.