Note 270 — Chapter XVI
Reading edition
See the curious disclosures of a Venetian ambassador, printed by Ranke, History of the Popes, Appendix, sect. i., No. 3. The exposition, by Machiavelli, of the French policy, and of the persevering pursuit of sovereignty by the Borgia, is interesting and instructive; Il Principe, ch. iii. and vii.