Byways in southern Tuscany . Pitigliano. In the Court of the Orsini Castle. BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY. Orsini Palace. Doorway valor, was sorely wounded, but after a time recovered, andthis was for us a profound misfortune. We shall now setforth actions of this same Niccolo which compel one todesire that he might have died in that encounter. Indeed while fighting the battles of all the world, theOrsini made time to be ever at war with each other; andNiccolo IV, though absent, contrived, through agentswhom he kept in Pitigliano, to foment the discontent ofthe people to his own advantage. At las
Byways in southern Tuscany . Pitigliano. In the Court of the Orsini Castle. BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY. Orsini Palace. Doorway valor, was sorely wounded, but after a time recovered, andthis was for us a profound misfortune. We shall now setforth actions of this same Niccolo which compel one todesire that he might have died in that encounter. Indeed while fighting the battles of all the world, theOrsini made time to be ever at war with each other; andNiccolo IV, though absent, contrived, through agentswhom he kept in Pitigliano, to foment the discontent ofthe people to his own advantage. At last, in 1547, drivento desperation by the barbarities of Gian Francesco, theybroke into open revolt and assaulted the castle. Forhours they battered at the walls, and Gian Francesco,from loopholes above, gazed down upon the infuriatedmass of human beings whom he had wantonly driven tothis mad hatred. While he looked he trembled, and 261 BYWAYS IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY trembling he shrank back as he thought of the momentwhen the gates must give way, and of what would theninevitably follow. Silently he desc
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