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INTRODUCTION.
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Political condition of Italy in the thirteenth century 4
Ezzelino da Romano 7
THE TYRANNY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
Finance and its relation to culture 8
The ideal of the absolute ruler 9
Inward and outward dangers 10
Florentine estimate of the tyrants 11
The Visconti 12
THE TYRANNY OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
Intervention and visits of the emperors 18
Want of a fixed law of succession. Illegitimacy 20
Founding of States by Condottieri 22
Relations of Condottieri to their employers 23
The family of Sforza 24
Giacomo Piccinino 25
Later attempts of the Condottieri 26
THE PETTY TYRANNIES.
The Baglioni of Perugia 28
Massacre in the year 1500 31
Malatesta, Pico, and Petrucci 33
THE GREATER DYNASTIES.
The Aragonese at Naples 35
The last Visconti at Milan 38
Francesco Sforza and his luck 39
Galeazzo Maria and Ludovic Moro 40
The Gonzaga at Mantua 43
Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino 44
The Este at Ferrara 46
THE OPPONENTS OF TYRANNY.
The later Guelphs and Ghibellines 55
The conspirators 56
Murders in church 57
Influence of ancient tyrannicide 57
Catiline as an ideal 59
Florentine view of tyrannicide 59
The people and tyrannicide 60
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
Mediaeval devotion to reliques 72
Florence from the fourteenth century 73
Objectivity of political intelligence 74
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