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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 213 — Chapter IX · WAR AS A WORK OF ART.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

To this effect Paul Jovius (Elogia, p. 184) who adds: ‘Nondum enim invecto externarum gentium cruento more, Italia milites sanguinarii et multæ cædis avidi esse didicerant.’ We are reminded of Frederick of Urbino, who would have been ‘ashamed’ to tolerate a printed book in his library. See Vespas. Fiorent.

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