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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00982	A most worthy and famous vvorke, bothe pleasant and profitable, conteyning the longe and cruell warres between the Gothes and the valyant Romayne emperours, for the possession of Italy. VVith the vvounderful chances that hapned to both nations: / written in the Italian tongue, and nevvly translated into English by A.G.; De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto. English	Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.; Procopius.	1565 (1565)	STC 3933.5; ESTC S91235	126,989	396

wythoute proofe by the same Emperour for whom he had so often put hys lyfe in perill to whom he had acquired so muche honour whose fauour he had estemed more then to raygne himselfe as an Emperour depriued of both his eyes and constrayned to begge hys bread miserably from doore to doore an vnworthye rewarde for so manye good dedes and so muche good seruice done to the Empyre And Narses the subduer of the Gothes and reducer of Italy to the Empyre when he had gouerned it quietlye manye yeres togyther to bys greate honour and admyration at the laste lyke a shrewd cow whyche when she hath geuen a good quantitie of mylke ouerthroweth the payle wyth her heele and spyllethe the same prouoked onely by the presumptuous wordes of a vayne and enuious woman weued suche a web according to his owne wordes as neyther she nor the Emperour were able to weare oute no nor he hymselfe to vnweaue agayne after he had ones putte it into the loome thoughe he dyd the beste he could to haue stayed it so hard and difficult a matter is it to stoppe a mischief of the course when it ones hath gotten the reynes in the necke and hathe set foote forward to runne the race For the Lombardes beynge by hym in the extasie of his fumyshe rage called oute of Pannonie which by that tyms was become the common receptacle of the enemyes of the Empyre not onelye wythin shorte tyme after hys decease broughte Italye in subiection to them but also syns that daye hytherto whyche thyng neyther the Gothes Hsines Vandales Erules nor anye other of the barbarous nations with their manyfolde and terrible assaultes were able to compasse and brynge to effecte haue helde a portion thereof as a perpetuall possession and inheritance to themselues whych retaineth their name vnto this daye But forasmuch as these thinges were done somewhat after the subduing of the Gothes and doe lytle or nothinge pertaine to the presente purpose of thys Historie I will not stand any lenger vppon them but remit the to the readynge of myne Author The preface of Leonard Aretine vnto hys bookes of the warres in Italye againste the Gothes ALthoughe it had bene a far greater pleasure toine to haue wrytten of the prosperous florishing estate of Italy then of the slaughters and destruction of it yet notwythstanding forasmuch as the time requireth otherwyse we also wil chaunge wyth the tyme follow the mutabilitie of fortune reportinge in these bookes the inuastons of the Gothes the warres through the which almost all Italy was brought to vtter 〈…〉 S●●ly a sorrowfull matter but yet for the knowledge of thinges done in those dayes necessarie to be entreated of For I cannot thinke but that when Xenophon of Athens that excellēt Clerke dyd wryte of the beseging and famishing of Athens and of the throwing downe of the walles of it he was sorie in his harte that he had occasyon so to doe And yet he wrate it bycause he thought it expediēt that the rememberance of such things shuld not perishe Neyther doth our Liuy deserue les praise when he reherceth the taking and burning of Rome by the Frenchmen then when he setteth out the famous triumph of Paulus Emylius ouer the Mare●●●es or the name conquestes of Scip●s Affricanus For it is the dutie of an historie to put in writing all aduētures as well unfortunate as fortunate And therfore a man maye wyshe the best but he must write be it good or bad as occasiē offereth I assure you as I was inditinge these matters albeit many things did greue me for thentier loue that I beare to my natiue countrye yet not wythstandyng thys reason I had to comfortine that although Italy suffered at that time most extreme miseries yet at the length she not onely gate thupper hand expulsed those forreine nations but also hath remayned from that day to this most welthy puissant both by sea and land and that from that tyme forth her Cities haue florished in ryches aucthorie most abundantly and doe florishe still at this hower thonour and dominion of thē now stretching it self far of on al sides so that the thinges that haue happened vnto her seme not so much to be lamented as to be reioyced at like vnto Hercules whose greate exploits made him more famous then euer he should haue bene yf he had not attempted those daungerous enterprises I wil not speake of the great Ciuilitie good Nurture Courtesye trad of all Liberall arts learning of the which Italy sheweth it self to be a natural mother a very nourice for I will let the comendations of her alon vntil another tyme. As concerning the warres that we now must entreate of there remained no mention of thē among the Latin writers onely there went a report frō man to mā that very slēder obscure that Belisarius Narses captains of the emperour Iustinian draue that Gothes out of Italy but where or in what sort or by what meanes there was no inkling at al left in writing We came by the knowledge of thē out of that grek Chroncles Wherfore as I had don by many other thinges before so also I endenored to bring agayn to light these things beīg wellny blurred blotted out of memory And that so much the rather bycause that other stories for the most part do concern thaffaires doings of strāgers but this cōcer neth wholy our own matters Wherein it maye be worthe a mans labour to search peruse the state of Italye in those daies what Cities and what kind of people were in it what townes and cities were beseged which were wonne and brought in subiectio in what places battells were fought For to know all these thynges it is a great prayse and not to know thē it is a foule shame For it is a tokē that a man loueth his country not to be ignoraunt in thoriginall and procedings therof or whatsoeuer ells hath fortuned vnto it in tymes past Furthermore that knowledge of Histories doth greatly delight the mynd bycause all we men doe of nature couit to know things and also it bringeth great profit for as much as it contameth the examples of like affaires to what end they came gyueth experiens in many thyngs through the which old men are accompted wiser then yongmē bicause they haue sene ino thynges in their liues time and by experiens not only of their own but also of other mens perilles are made more ware and therfore are able to giue better iudgmēt and are wont to be led by better counsel For whē they rede of the riches and Empires of the greatest kyngs and the puissantest nations and percayue how sone they com to decay they vnderstand by by what a folly it is to boast be prowd for those things whych no man is able to assure himself that they shall cōtinue with him vntill night Thus doth an Historye make vs bothe more