Note 181 — Chapter VII · THE REPUBLICS: VENICE AND FLORENCE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Belonging to a rather later period (1532?). Compare the opinion of Guicciardini, terrible in its frankness, on the condition and inevitable organisation of the Medicean party. Lettere di Principi, iii. fol. 124, (ediz. Venez. 1577).