Jacob Burckhardt

The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy


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