Note 820 — Chapter I · THE EQUALISATION OF CLASSES.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
When, in the fifteenth century, Vespasiano Fiorentino (pp. 518, 632) implies that the rich should not try to increase their inherited fortune, but should spend their whole annual income, this can only, in the mouth of a Florentine, refer to the great landowners.