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Florentine view of tyrannicide
59
The people and tyrannicide
60
CHAPTER VII. THE REPUBLICS: VENICE AND FLORENCE.
Venice in the fifteenth century
62
The inhabitants
63
Dangers from the poor nobility
64
Causes of the stability of Venice
65
The Council of Ten and political trials
66
Relations with the Condottieri
67
Optimism of Venetian foreign policy
68
Venice as the home of statistics
69
Retardation of the Renaissance
71
Mediæval devotion to reliques
72
Florence from the fourteenth century
73
Objectivity of political intelligence
74
Dante as a politician
75
Florence as the home of statistics: the two Villanis
76
Higher form of statistics
77
Florentine constitutions and the historians
82
Fundamental vice of the State
82
Political theorists
83
Macchiavelli and his views
84
Siena and Genoa
86
CHAPTER VIII. FOREIGN POLICY OF THE ITALIAN STATES.
Envy felt towards Venice
88
Relations to other countries: sympathy with France
89
Plan for a balance of power
90
Foreign intervention and conquests
91
Alliances with the Turks
92
Counter-influence of Spain
94
Objective treatment of politics
95
Art of diplomacy
96
CHAPTER IX. WAR AS A WORK OF ART.
Firearms
98
Professional warriors and dilettanti
99
Horrors of war
101
CHAPTER X. THE PAPACY AND ITS DANGERS.
Relation of the Papacy to Italy and foreign countries
103
Disturbances in Rome from the time of Nicholas V.
104
Sixtus IV. master of Rome
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