This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV THE FALL OF FLORENCE We must now return to Florence, which will remain the centre of our narrative until we have traced the first subjection of Italy to its close. The news of the sack of Rome reached Florence on May 12. The enemies of the Medici, who were called at this time the Libertini ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV THE FALL OF FLORENCE We must now return to Florence, which will remain the centre of our narrative until we have traced the first subjection of Italy to its close. The news of the sack of Rome reached Florence on May 12. The enemies of the Medici, who were called at this time the Libertini, thought that the time had come for them to throw off the yoke. Niccolo, the son of Piero Capponi, a man of high position in the state, respected by all the citizens for his integrity and moderation, and for the services rendered to the state by his great ancestor, placed himself at their head. One of the most prominent citizens of Florence at this time was Filippo Strozzi, a man of great wealth and great authority. He had married Clarice de' Medici, the sister of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, and was therefore regarded as being in a certain sense a member of that house. Passerini, Cardinal of Cortona, had been appointed governor of Florence in 1524 by Pope Clement VII. The most determined of the partisans of the Medici now urged him to act with vigour in repressing the popular movement, but he showed an entire want of courage and resolution. He hovered between the different plans proposed to him, and he was at length induced to consent to the summoning of a pratica or an informal assembly of citizens to consider the condition of the state. The pratica discussed the reopening of the Great Council, the creation of a Balia, or committee of twenty citizens, for the reform of the constitution, and the setting up of a Council of a hundred and twenty persons. It was understood that Ippolito and Alessandro de' Medici should leave the city, Alessandro the mulatto, and Ippolito, the son of Giuliano, Duke of Nemours, then a youth of eighteen. Filippo...
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