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He had accepted the political situation; and we have good reason, from letters written at a later date by Valori from Rome, to believe that this man took a sincere interest in the great artist. During the siege Lodovico Buonarroti passed his time at Pisa. His little grandson, Lionardo, the sole male heir of the family, was with him.
The Prussian corn lay nearly all in cellars; little got, even of the Prussians, by such an atrocity: and your own poor fellow-subjects, where are they? Valori was burnt out here; again exploded from his quarters, poor man; seems to have thought it a mere fire in his own lodging, and that he was an unfortunate diplomatist.
Polish Majesty is here, and certain of the warlike Bastard Brothers home from Winter-quarters, Comte de Saxe for one; Valori also, punctually as due; and little Graf von Bruhl, highest-dressed of human creatures, who is factotum in this Court. "Your Polish Majesty, by treaty and title you are King of Moravia withal: now is the time, now or never, to become so in fact!
Two things surprise Valori: first, the great strength, impregnable as it were, to which Neisse has been brought since he saw it last, superlative condition of that Fortress, and of the Army itself, as it gathers daily more and more about Frankenstein here: and then secondly, and contrariwise, the strangely neglected posture of mountainous or Upper Silesia, given up to Pandours.
Which was reckoned magnanimous, at least public-spirited, in Friedrich; considering what Saxony's behavior to him had already been. "By all means, his Polish Majesty for Kaiser; do our utmost, Excellencies Valori, Courten and Company!" answers Friedrich, and for his own part, I observe, is intensely busy upon Army matters, looking after the main chance.
Then I too, without disgrace, can go altogether out of it; and it shall be a sharp eye that sees me in joint-stock with you again, M. le Chevalier." Friedrich has written in his HISTORY, and Valori used to hear him often say in words, Never were tidings welcomer than these, that the Saxons were about to desert him in this manner.
Francesco Valori, as we have seen, was the head of the Piagnoni, a man with certain fine qualities that were not incompatible with violent partisanship, with an arrogant temper that alienated his friends, nor with bitter personal animosities one of the bitterest being directed against Bernardo del Nero.
Ask all Florence who of those five men has the truest heart, and there will not be many who will name any other name than Bernardo del Nero. You did interpose with Francesco Valori for the sake of one prisoner: you have not then been neutral; and you know that your word will be powerful." "I do not desire the death of Bernardo," said Savonarola, colouring deeply.
"Unfortunate Segur, the Segur of Linz three years ago, whose conduct was great, according to Valori, but powerless against traitors and fate! was again, once more, unfortunate in those parts. Instead of taking Straubingen, taking Passau, perhaps of pushing on to Vienna itself, this is what we have already come to.
Taldo Valori was at this time Gonfalonier, and Francesco Salviati one of the Signory, who, being relatives of the Bardi, were unwilling to summon the people with the bell, alleging as a reason that it is by no means well to assemble them in arms upon every slight occasion, for power put into the hands of an unrestrained multitude was never beneficial; that it is an easy matter to excite them to violence, but a difficult thing to restrain them; and that, therefore, it would be taking a more prudent course if they were to inquire into the truth of the affair, and punish the delinquents by the civil authority, than to attempt, upon a simple information, to correct it by such a tumultuous means, and thus hazard the safety of the city.
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