Excerpt from Florentine History: From the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third Met of Austria and Alexander resolved on Campana broken up - Deceit of Francis the First to pepe and Florentine exiles - League concluded between the church, empire, King of the Romans, and Italy - Florence not named - Money de posited - Charles returns to Spain - Clement to Rome - A peculiar custom, and im portant consequences of it at Florence - Insolence and immunity of the nobles checked - Filippo Strozzi's popularity - Alexander builds a fort - Foundations of the citadel begun - Militia reorganized with privileges - Extends it to subject cities Pisa favoured - Licence of the garrison disgusts the people - The Palleschi discon tented - The expense of Alexander great - He declines business - His debauchery Luxurious habits and extravagance commence - His minions - Baseness of the citizens - Public business not neglected by the graver citizens - Specchio, Monti, Arbitrio, Decima - Account of the latter - Property and income tax - The latter abolished by Cosimo I. - Why - First creation of M ante or public stock - Manner of conducting it - Ameliorations - Clement's anxiety about Florence - His views of matrimonial alliances Catharine of Medicis marries the Duke of Orleans Clement at Nice - Filippo Strozzi - Nuncitr - Clement fears him - His brilliant and fascinating manners - Alessandra de' Mozzi's amours, folly, and cruel treatment of-the Duke's revels continue - Louisa Strozzi and Giuliano Salviati - Manners, customs - Salviati wounded - Its consequences - Hero Strozzi in prison - His care leu insolenee to the magistrates - Their weakness - Power of the great - Released by Clement's order Salviati's subsequent declaration and intimacy with the Strozzi They become alarmed and fly from Florence -war his last advice to Francis L - His reasons - Reggie and Modena awarded to Ferrara - Hate oi Ck ment to the Duke in consequence - Heir mutual duplicity - The Florentine exiles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.