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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...in the following terms: Our high and magnificent Signory, having read aloud several letters received from Ser Alessandro in Rome and Messer Francesco Pcpi in Milan, and several more, unsigned, from other citizens resident in Rome, ... and having demanded advice thereon.&c. (Florence Archives, Consulte e Pratiche, Registro65, at sheet 81 and fol.) faloniers of the Companies, who, shortly before, had threatened to put to the sack the abodes of all persons opposed to the execution of the sentence, now declared: That even in his bench some were disposed to concede right of appeal. But Messer Francesco Gualterotti, in the name of the Ten of Liberty, spoke more frankly, and said: The greater disturbance you make in the city, the better will you assist our enemies' designs. It is clear that all the potentates of Italy have plotted against Florence, and that Rome is the centre of every intrigue woven against us. The object of the desired appeal is not to learn the will of the people, which has been decidedly expressed more than once, but merely to gain time, and invoke foreign aid. Nevertheless, if your Excellencies are resolved at all costs to grant right of appeal, it were best to make sure of the council first of all, and to lose no time in assembling it, since delay can lead to nought but trouble both within and without the walls. And it likewise behooves us to keep the troops in readiness to defend the Republic from all the enemies by which it is surrounded. The next to be heard were the doctors of the law, whose opinion on the question had naturally great weight; and their representative candidly declared: that the present danger would justify their refusal to grant an appeal,1 and that even...

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