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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06713	The Florentine historie. Written in the Italian tongue, by Nicholo Macchiavelli, citizen and secretarie of Florence. And translated into English, by T.B. Esquire; Istorie fiorentine. English	Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Bedingfield, Thomas, d. 1613.	1595 (1595)	STC 17162; ESTC S113983	322,124	238

towards his friends then was by his father vsed In so much as those that reioyced at the death of Giouanni seeing the vertue of Cosimo became sorie This Cosimo was a man of excellent wisdom of presence graue and gratious greatly liberall curteous and such a one as neuer attempted any thing either against any faction or the state but sought by all meanes to pleasure euerie man and with his liberalitie to gaine the good wil of many Citizens So that his good deserts defaced those that gouerned brought himself to beleeue that he might by that meanes liue at Florence in sufficient strength and securitie And if the ambition of his aduersaries should moue any extraordinarie occasion to the contrarie hee hoped both by armes and fauoure of friendes to oppresse them The greatest instruments to worke his greatnesse were Auerardo de Medici Puccio Pucci Of them Auerardo with courage and Puccio with wisedome procured him great reputation For the counsell and wisedome of Puccio was so well knowne to euerie man that the faction of Cosimo was called not by his owne name but by the name of Puccio The citie notwithstanding thus diuided the enterprise of Lucca proceeded whereby the humours of the factions were rather encreased then extinguished And although the faction of Cosimo chiefly counfelled the warre yet many of the contrarie part were appointed officers therein as mē most reputed in the state which Auerardo and others not being able to remedie sought by all industrie and practise to slaunder them and if any losse happened as many did they imputed the same not to fortune or force of the enemie but want of wisedome in the officers This was the cause that the offences of Astor Gianni were esteemed so great This made Rinaldo delli Albizi offended and without lycence to depart from his charge This was the occasion that the deliuerie of Giouanni Guicciardini was required at the hand of the Captaine of the people And heereof proceeded all blames that had bene imputed to the Magistrates and ministers of the warre For the true slaunders were encreased and the vntrue were inuented and both the true and not true were of the people that loued them not beleeued These matters and manner of proceeding extraordinarie was well knowne to Nicholo di Vzano and others of his faction who had many times thought vpon remedie but found no meanes how to deale therein Because it seemed to them that the suffering thereof was dangerous and forcibly to helpe it was not easie Nicholo di Vzano was the first vnto whom this extraordinary way displeased Thus the warres continuing without the citie and these disorders within Nicholo Barbadori desirous to bring Nicholo di Vzano to consent to the oppression of Cosimo went vnto his house where he found him sadly set in his Closet and there with the best reasons he could perswaded him to ioyne with Rinaldo to driue Cosimo out of the Citie Vnto whome Nicholo di Vzano answered as followeth I thinke it were better for thy house and our Commonweale that all the rest whose opiniō thou herein followest had their beards as men saie rather of siluer then gold as thou hast For then their counsels proceeding from heads graie groūded in experiēce would be more aduised more profitable It seemeth to me that those which desire to banish Cosimo frō Florence had neede first of all to measure their forces with his This our side you haue called by the name of Nobilitie and the contrarie part you haue termed the plebeial partie If the truth answered to these names in euerie accident the victorie would proue doubtfull and we haue more cause to feare then to hope moued with the example of the auncient Nobilitie of this citie which hath ben by this plebeiall sort heretofore oppressed But the greatest cause of our feare is that our side is dismembred our aduersaries continue whole and entyre First you must consider that Neri di Gino and Nerone de Nigi two of our principall Citizens be not as you know more friends to vs then to them There be also many families among themselues diuided For diuerse through enuie of their brethrē or their kinsmen do disfauor vs fauor thē I wil resite vnto you the names of some few the rest you may the more easily remember with your self Of the house of Guicciardini and amōg the sonnes of Luigi Piero is enemy to Giouanni fauoureth our aduersaries Tomazo Nicholo Soderini for the hate they haue to Francesco their vncle are openly protested our enimies So that if we consider well what they are what we our selues be I know not for what reasō we shuld cal our or their partie more noble And if it be that we cal their part plebeial bicause they are by the multitude most followed their state therin is the better ours the worse For whēsoeuer we shal come to arms we cānot resist thē Also if we stād on our dignities they haue bin giuē to vs by the state by vertue therof we haue cōtinued thē these 50. veres Yet whēsoeuer we shal come to proofe our weaknes wil appear we shal lose our authority If you haply say that the iust occasiō which moueth vs to this enterprise shall encrease our credit and diminish theirs Thereto I answere that it behooueth this iust quarrel of ours to be knowne beleeued of others as wel as of our selues which falleth out cleane contrarie for the occasion alledged is altogither builded vpon the suspition we haue that he goeth about to make himselfe Prince of this cittie This is the mistrust we haue which others haue not but they rather accuse vs of that we accuse him The matters which make Cosimo suspected are that he imployeth his mony to serue euerie occasion not onely to priuate vses but also to the publike affaires and that as well to the Florentines as the Captaines and Leaders The cause why he doth fauoure this and that Cittizen hauing need of authoritie is for that his credit with the multitude hath aduaunced this and that friend to great honours Therefore it behoueth you to alledge the reasons why hee should be expulsed Because he is charitable friendly liberall and loued of all men And now tel me I pray you what lawe inhibiteth blameth or condemneth men for their charitie their liberalitie and their loue And albeit these be meanes for him to aspire yet are they not so taken neither are wee of credite inough to make them so to bee thought For our proceedings haue wrought our discredit and our cittie naturally disposed to diuision and liuing alwaies in corruption cannot giue eare to such accusations But admit you could expulse him which hauing a Senate for the purpose may easily come to passe yet how can ye deuise that he hauing in the citie so many friends studying for his reurne should not be reuoked This I think impossible because his friends being many and he hauing loue