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A07982	Ciuill considerations vpon many and sundrie histories, as well ancient as moderne, and principallie vpon those of Guicciardin Containing sundry rules and precepts for princes, common-wealths, captaines, coronels, ambassadours and others, agents and seruants of princes, with sundry aduertisements and counsels concerning a ciuill life, gathered out of the examples of the greatest princes and common-wealths in Christendome. Handled after the manner of a discourse, by the Lord Remy of Florence, and done into French by Gabriel Chappuys, Tourangeau, and out of French into English, by W.T.; Considerationi civili sopra l'historie di Francesco Guicciardini e d'altri historici. English	Nannini, Remigio, 1521?-1581?; Traheron, W., attributed name.; W. T., fl. 1601.	1601 (1601)	STC 18348; ESTC S113070	207,479	260

kingdome of Naples Peter hauing resolued to continue constant in the friendship of Alphonse of Arragon King of Naples would neuer giue eare to the French King who desiring to enter into league with him and offered him many faire conditions to which league all the whole citie seemed to leane and to yeeld as inclined and well affected to the French nation For afterwards when the French armies began to haue the better in Italie and the name of the French to be terrible and the affaires of those of the house of Arragon to decline from ill to worse Peter repenting him of his resolute determination to asswage the wrath of Charles 〈…〉 Charles the S. King of 〈…〉 to Peeter de Medicis went to S. Peters to see and speak with him in person where being receiued by the King with better countenance then good will the King made vnreasonable demaunds which were that presently the Fortresses of Serezana and Serezanell which are the keyes of the Florentine Seignorie should be giuen into his hands with the Fortresses of Liuorne and of Pisa and that the Florentines by his meanes should lend him 200000. Ducats and vpon this condition hee would take them into his protection Peter yeelded to all these demands and taking vpon him more authoritie then he ought yeelded the Holds and Fortresses aboue said without out the counsel of the citizens without order from the Magistrates and without giuing the Common-wealth to vnderstand thereof Which being vnderstood at Florence did so moue the harts of the people against him that being returned to the Citie hee was verie vnwelcome Peter de Medicis chased from Florence and by the furie of the Citizens was driuen from the Pallace and out of the Citie and declared and proclaimed a Rebell If in any case it be a matter doubtful yea or very dangerous to passe the bounds of the authoritie receiued and as a man may say play the Prince whereas is no neede it is principally in charges and commaunds in the warres where euery fact done in this manner by a Generall is sufficient to put such iealousie in the hearts of his superiours and make his trust and faith so suspect to the Prince who gaue him such charge that he cannot be put from his gouernment without preiudice of his reputation and daunger of his life Paulo Vitellio a man most valorous and in his time one of the chiefe and most renowned Captaines in Italie being by the Florentines established and made Generall of their armie against the Pisans in that time wherein they were vnder the sauegard and protection of the Venetians for one onely fact wherein he vsurped more authoritie then belonged vnto him put the Florentines in such iealousie and suspition of him that taking all his doings in ill part in the end they bereued him of his life This man being at Casantin against the Venetian armie led by the Duke of Vrbin Bartelmy Liuiano Astor Baglioni and other honourable Captaines all which he did so valiantly resist that he did not onely stop the passage against them but also besieged them with their principall Captaines within Bibienna a Castle of the Casantin The Duke of Vrbin fell sicke in this siege who desired Vitellio to giue him a safeconduct to goe to take Phisicke and to cure himselfe and this Paul vsurping a little too much authoritie Guicciar lib. 4 without acquainting the Florentine Commissioners herewith who represented the state of the Common-wealth gaue safeconduct to the Duke and to Iulian de Medicis a rebell to the Seignorie Common-wealth which made him so suspected that they began to marke his behauiour and the manner of his proceedings for they mistrusted him to haue some secret intelligence with the enemie And for this cause when they afterwards sawe that without any occasion hee abandoned the Fortresse of Stampace which was taken by force and that being able to followe the victorie against the Pisans he tooke no care to pursue them but vsurping supreame power and authoritie hee raised the siege from before Pisa without the leaue or knowledge of the Florentine Commissioners they began to hold for certaine that which before they but doubted Paulo Vitellio condemned to dye by the Florentines in such sort that to rid themselues of this suspition and feare and to giue example to their other Leaders and Commanders of armies they put him to death by order of Iustice But except it were vpon some extreame accident or to auoide some manifest and present danger it were ill done for a man to attribute to himselfe more authoritie then he ought and to promise also that which is not in his power to performe as the Lord of Tremouille who being for Lewes the 12. King of France Generall of his armie against Henry the 8. King of England which made warre against the French King before Terouenne and Tournay The said Generall hauing vnderstood that an armie of 20000. Swissers had besieged Dijon the head Citie of Bourgundy thereby to constraine the French King to giue ouer his claime to the Dutchie of Milan and the said Lord of Tremouille seeing the great danger wherein the realme of France was The Lord of Tremouille with absolute power coucluded a peace with the Swissers notwithstanding that it was vpon very vnworthie conditions hee vsurped and attributed to himselfe more authoritie then to him appertained so as promising that which he could not performe neither had commission to promise he came to parley with the chiefe conductors of the Swissers and promised them that the King of France should surrender the right which he pretended to the state of Milan and to assure his promise he gaue thē 4. French gentlemen in ostage The Lord Generall took this resolution knowing that if the citie of Dijon were taken and lost and that if that nation should not giue ouer to vexe the French King being alreadie tired with warres the Swissers on the one side and the English on the other might without any let march to Paris gates Peter de Medicis might peraduenture haue the same consideration in making his treatie with the King of France who seeing his countrie in great daunger for that the King was in armes victorious displeased with the Florentine Common-wealth and neere vnto Florence but this warlike people easily to bee moued to despite and indignation iudging otherwise of his doings then hee deserued chased him out of the towne and proclaimed him Rebell So as in summe a man ought so moderately to vse the authoritie receiued and to carrie himselfe in such sort that he giue his Prince no cause to be iealous of him by taking vpon him as a Prince when as he is but an inferiour and a seruant it is farre better to shew that he respecteth his Prince by giuing him to vnderstand of all his purposes and enterprises than by vsurping equalitie seeme to make no account of him CHAP. 14. VVhether a publike seruant of a Prince or Common-wealth

as no reckoning was made thereof but of one man onely which was Iohn de Cardine Earle of Colisan who was slaine with a shot in the head which was in the yeere 1522. But before that Pope Eugenius being then liuing who was created in the yeere 1431. Boulogna being reuolted and rebelling against the Church through the occasion of Canedoli the armies of the Pope the Venetians and the Florentines being confederates enforced themselues to get and recouer it againe Nicholas de Tolentin was Captaine of the League and Picinino was chiefe of the enemies they came to giue battaile in the countrie of Imote Tolentin was put to flight and there taken prisoner with fiue principall Colonels and 3500. men at armes Sabellicus and a thousand souldiers besides the dead and in the armie of Picinino died but foure and thirtie were wounded yet neuerthelesse Artillerie and small shot were then vsed although not with such perfection as now we see The hardines of the Swissers at Nouarra was admirable but the battailes and victories repeated were no lesse memorable in which may be seene that the wisedome and discretion of the Captains hath had great part yet neuerthelesse through the valour of the souldiers accompanied with the good counsell and direction of the Captaines happy victories are to be hoped for CHAP. 65. Speeches vsed without consideration haue been the occasion of much euill as well to them which vsed them as to others IN consideration in all things is euill To speake to no purpose is hurtfull but worse in speaking and to babble and prate is a vice blame-worthie in all men but most pernicious and hurtfull to those which haue publike charge and as to speake in time and place is a part of wisedome euen so to speake to no purpose is a principal part of follie I haue euer esteemed more of them which first consider with reason and speake afterward and therefore the Shepheard of Archadia said wisely E pria chio parli le parole mastico Which is to say And before I speake I chew my words This vice besides the blame which it deserueth bringeth with it much danger and oftentimes one only word hath caused the death of him which spake it or hath brought into danger and trouble some other person who by a fit conuenient silence had auoyded it I speake not now of words proceeding frō a passionate man and in choler but of those which through want of wit and iudgement are vttered of persons of whom it had been good to haue beene silent and principally when they manage affaires of importance When as Dionysius was Lord in Siracusa there were certaine young men which went to his Barbers shop to wash or to discourse as the manner is in such shops whither idle persons resort to talke and to heare newes and these young men beginning to talke freely of the gouernment of the Tyrant and to say that it was impossible to bee able to change their Lord because that hee euer had a good guard and that his gouernment might be rightly called Diamantin being impossible to bee broken whereto his Barber without consideration said Wherefore is it impossible to kill him seeing that I euery day haue this Rasour at his throte These words were noted and by his espials reported to Dionysius who made this Barber to be apprehended and quartered This inconsidered word vttered without reason was cause of his death and did aduise Dionysius to trust himselfe no more in the hands of a Barber for he made his daughters to burne the haire of his head and beard with coales because he would haue no more iron come about his head The same Dionysius put a gentleman his very familiar to death for a word by him foolishly spoken who being in companie with certaine gentlemen his friends said Wot you what I dreamed to night that I had cut Dionysius his throte These words were reported to the Tyrant who notwithstanding the great familiaritie betweene them made him to dye saying If he had not first thought it in the day time he had neuer dreamed thereof at night But a man may say that these were common persons which are not worthie to bee alleaged for example therefore I will shew that there haue beene also men of great authoritie which haue fallen into this inconsideration Demaratus which should haue succeeded in the kingdome of the Lacedemonians was depriued of that kingdome by Ariston his father for one onely word vttered without consideration in the Senate which was that newes being brought vnto him that he had a sonne borne he counted vpon his fingers how long his wife had been with him and seeing that there were no more but seuen moneths and that vsually women are deliuered at nine hee said It is not possible that hee should be my sonne This word turned to the great dammage of Demaratus for after the death of Ariston his father the Lacedemonians refused to giue him the kingdome Herodot lib. 6 because the Ephores bare record that Ariston had said that it was not possible that Demaratus borne at seuen moneths end should be his sonne which he confirmed with an oth When Pope Iulius the second attempted to deliuer Italie from the Oltramontani hee sent an Italian Ambassadour to the King of England to perswade him to take armes in his behalfe against the King of France and the Ambassadour hauing deliuered all that he had in charge to say answere was giuen him in the behalfe of the King that he was most readie and willing to defend the Pope but that an Armie was not so soone to be made readie for that the English by reason of their long peace had in a manner lost the vse of armes and becausethey were to goe against a King who was no lesse mightie and puissant then warlike as was the King of France there ought to be a time to make necessarie prouision for a warre of so great importance The Ambassadour presently to no purpose or reason added these words Anchio hodetto piu volte questo medesimo a sua sanctita which is to say And I haue oftentimes said the same to his holines These words which shewed the will of the Ambassadour to be different from that of his Prince The Ambassadour of Pope Iulius was taken for a Spie by the King of England gaue great doubt and suspition to the Kings Counsell and they began to doubt that the Ambassadour was rather inclined to fauour the King of France then the Pope his Master and setting secret Spies about him to take notice of his behauiour it was perceiued that by night hee spake secretly with the French Ambassadour by which meanes he was vndone and if he had fallen into the hands of the Pope he had peraduenture put him to death And so by his answere which was not to the purpose of his charge he wronged himselfe and was the occasion that the King of England was constrained to begin the warre

sooner then hee would who in deferring the succours had peraduenture accorded the controuersie between the Pope and the French King Renzo de Ceri a most honourable Captaine in his time being in the pay and seruice of Laurence de Medicis in the warre which Francis Maria Duke of Vrbin made against him to reconquer recouer his estate was aduertised that certaine Spanish Captaines had plotted a treason to deliuer Francis Maria into the hands of the Duke of Florence Wherefore the said Renzo talking with a Drumme demaunded of him in iest and laughing but with great inconsideration When will these Spaniards deliuer your Duke prisoner The Drumme made no answere but being returned to the Campe hee reported to Francis Maria the words which Renzo had vsed vnto him without any necessitie or reason Wherefore the Duke of Vrbin hauing engrauen them in his heart stood vpon his guard and marked the behauiour of the Spanish Captaines In the end through certaine letters and writings found among their baggage Certaine Spanish Captaines counict of treason were made to passe the pikes the truth appeared and the conspirators against Duke Francis were knowne who were committed to prison and conuict of treason and so were made to passe the pikes Thus Renzo was the cause why the treason tooke not effect the Captaines were dispatched and Laurence his Master made not so soone an end of the warres as otherwise peraduenture hee might haue done And Guicciardin saith of Renzo that hee was but shallow witted to vse such speeches to a Drumme without any consideration Let euery man then take heede of inconsiderationof speech for a man may fill whole bookes with the euils which haue risen and procecded from such faults and there where shall be such little discretion many notable errors will be committed CHAP. 66. VVho so doth any euill or offendeth another in secret thinking that it shall not be reuealed is commonly deceiued and beareth the payne thereof ALthough that the imprudence and inconsideration of men be seene in many things yet in this it seemeth to mee very notable when some doe or would doe some euill thinking that it should neuer be reuealed and moreouer there are some so ill aduised that they hazard to offend some worthie Personage grounded vpon the same conceit and hope of concealement and that the author of the euill action shall neuer be knowne I know that the nature and condition of malefactors is such that they thinke they shall neuer be discouered for no man would aduenture to robbe plot treasons conspiracies and such like mischiefes if they thought they should be knowne And I much maruell that after so many and so many experiences seene euery day thereof men neuerthelesse grounded vpon this conceit aduenture to do euill These men either beleeue not or they know not what is said by the authoritie of Iesus Christ to wit that there is nothing so hidden but it shall bee reuealed neither any thing so secret but it shal be knowne and that oftentimes the iniquitie falleth vpon his head who hath committed it And hee that diggeth a pitte for another man often breaketh his owne necke therein Wherefore Lewes Ariosto calleth this kind of men miserable saying in his sixt Song Miser chi mal oprando si confida Ch'ogn ' hor star debba in maleficio occulto Che quand ' ogn ' altro taccia intorno grida L'aria la terra e'l luggo in ch'è sepolto E dio fa spesso ch'il peccato grida il peccator poì ch'aclun di gli ha indulto Che se medesímo senza altruì rechiesta inauedutamente manifesta Vnhappie is he doing ill who relieth On secrecie thinking none will him espie All other being silent about him still crieth The aire earth and place whereas he doth lie And God so worketh that the sinne it selfe crieth And the sinner at sometime before he doth die Vnawares of himselfe without any request His owne sinne reuealeth and maketh manifest These verses are very sententious and worthy to be considered by all those which swelling with griefe are constrained to bring forth their iniquitie for although that for a time the malefactour be not discouered yet neuerthelesse by certaine meanes vnknowne vnthought of nor premeditated onely knowne vnto God the offences come to be manifest yea they come to be discouered when a man thinketh least thereof and in some either earely or late God layeth open the sinne and the punishment followeth Plutarch in his worke or the faire Treatise of the slow vengeance of God saith that in the Cipriotte warres one Aristocrates chiefe of the Messenians through the desire to rule betrayed his Messenians by which occasion his practise taking effect all the Messenians were cut in pieces but twentie yeeres after his treason was reuealed and Aristocrates was rigorously punished It is said in the verses before that the sinne induceth the sinner sometime to manifest it himselfe which appeareth to be true in this example which I would haue held for a fable if it had beene reported by any other author then Plutarch who in the same treatise here aboue alleaged reporteth such a case saying that a certaine man named Bessus had slaine his father and this murther and parricide lay long hidden but comming vpon a time into an Inne to supper he saw a Swallowes nest wherein were young ones which cried and hee hauing throwne downe the nest with a long pole which he had in his hand with his foote killed all the young birds in a great brauerie and being demaunded by those which were there present wherefore he had so cruelly killed them he answered Did you not vnderstand that they did nothing else but speake against me saying that I had killed my father They which heard these words reported them to the King recounting the fact and the answere of Bessus and the King causing him to bee apprehended made him to bee tortured by which meanes hee confessed the fact and how it passed and was punished accordingly We reade in the historie of the Greekes and also in those of Sicilie in the life of William the good that Andronicus a Greeke fell into this inconuenience who being left by Emanuell Emperour of Constantinople Tutour of Alessus his sonne Andronicus aspiring to the Empire by sundrie deuices draue away the Latines which fauoured the childe and afterward as Alessus went in a little barke to recreate himselfe vpon the Sea Andronious threw him into the water and drowned him making the world to beleeue that by mischaunce he fell into the Sea so as he was not able to saue him But in the end the treason being discouered by the course which he held putting many to death and vniustly and without reason banishing others the people of Constantinople pulled him in peeces We reade in the same histories of Sicilia that Robert King of Naples and Federique King of Sicilie making warre the one against the other Robert disembarked and set foote on land betweene the