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