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Excellency Valori is with the French Detachment, or rather poor Valori is everywhere; running about, from quarter to quarter, sometimes to Prag itself; assiduous to heal rents everywhere; clapping cement into manifold cracks, from day to day. Through Valori we get some interesting glimpses into the secret humors and manoeuvres of Comte Maurice.
Broglio, too, was unmanageable, piqued that Valori, not Broglio, had started the thing; showed himself captious, dark, hysterically effervescent, now over-cautious, and again capable of rushing blindly headlong. To Broglio the fact at Linz, which everybody saw to be momentous, was overwhelming. Magnanimous Segur, and his Linz "all wedged with beams," what a road have they gone!
Tallard, prisoner after Blenheim, made PEACE, you know, in England? and the like; which grieved the soul of Valori, and convinced him of Friedrich's inhumanity, in a crying case. Is he entitled to exchange by cartel, or not entitled? and produced, in the next eight months, much angry animated pamphleteering and negotiation.
He marked out parallels, sent summonses, reconnoitred, manoeuvred, in a way more or less surprising to the eye of Valori, who is military, and knows about sieges. Rather singular, remarks Valori; good engineers much wanted here! But the bombardment did finally begin: night of October 26th-27th, the Prussiaus opened fire; and, at a terrible rate, cannonaded and bombarded without intermission.
It relates to an epoch among the most interesting of Modern History, and the extracts given in the Ragguagli only make us wish for more. From this Diary it appears that the Valori were among the most distinguished citizens of a state which could boast that its merchants were princes.
It suffices to consider that, according to the only evidences available the Casanatense Codices and the dispatches of that same Valori whom M. Yriarte so confidently cites, Roderigo Borgia's election was unanimous. Who, then, were these cardinals who refused his bribes?
Indeed, it might be conjectured with some probability that, despairing of bringing his great design for the tomb of Julius to a conclusion, he utilised one of the projected captives for his present to the all-powerful vizier of the Medicean tyrants. It ought, in conclusion, to be added, that there was nothing servile in Michelangelo's desire to make Valori his friend.
D'Arget, about a month after this, was taken into Friedrich's service; Valori consenting, whose occupation was now gone; and we shall hear of D'Arget again. A man much heard of, during those years of office.
For, Cardinal Ippolito having parted in great anger from Pope Clement for reasons that were discussed at the time, but returning not long afterwards to Rome accompanied by Baccio Valori, in passing through Arezzo he found Giorgio, who had been left without a father and was occupying himself as best he could; wherefore, desiring that he should make some proficience in art, and wishing to have him near his person, he commanded Tommaso de' Nerli, who was Commissary there, that he should send him to Rome as soon as he should have finished a chapel that he was painting in fresco for the Monks of S. Bernardo, of the Order of Monte Oliveto, in that city.
To him, in a brief private interview, after obtaining a pledge of secrecy, Tito avowed his own agency for the Mediceans an agency induced by motives about which he was very frank, declaring at the same time that he had always believed their efforts futile, and that he sincerely preferred the maintenance of the popular government; affected to confide to Valori, as a secret, his own personal dislike for Bernardo del Nero; and, after this preparation, came to the important statement that there was another Medicean plot, of which, if he obtained certain conditions from the government, he could, by a journey to Siena and into Romagna, where Piero de' Medici was again trying to gather forces, obtain documentary evidence to lay before the council.
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