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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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...was Luca Savelli, an old but unskilful captain. Artillery, ammunition, and supplies were all scanty, and treason lurked on all sides, and to so great an extent that some of the men purposely scattered on the ground the gunpowder that they were to carry to Prato,3 where the matchlock men were so short of ammunition as to be forced to strip lead from the roof of a church to make bullets. ' Nevertheless, Soderini was still hopeful, asserting that as soon as the enemy had passed beyond Barberino, he should be able to send 18,000 men and the artillery to Prato. Meanwhile Filippo Nerli, in bk. v. p. 108 of his Commentarii, says that he heard the speech, which was very beautiful and very fitting, and was also transcribed very elegantly by Messer Francesco Guicciardini in his ' Storia.' And Jacop; Guicciardini, in writing to his brother Francesco (Guicciardini, Opere Inedite, vol. vi. p. 95), confirms that the whole Council voted unanimously for the Gonfalonier, for, he says, public opinion went with him, and only the men of worth (meaning the richer and more influential) were discontented, because he always wished to do as he pleased. 1 These figures are given by Jacopo Guicciardini, in the letter to his brother quoted above. Opere Inedilc, vol. vi. p. 95. In the Storia d'ltalia, vol. vi. p. 158, Guicciardini says 2,000 infantry and 100 men-at-arms; Buonaccorsi says 4,000 infantry and 40 men-at-arms. Diario, p. 182. Buonaccorsi is generally the authority referred to by Nardi arid Guicciardini. Jacopo Guicciardini, in the letter we have quoted, also gives the figures 4,000 infantry and 100 men-at-arms. The different numbers assigned to the latter is probably caused by some including the militia light horse, and others excluding them....

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