. The Florentine The of the Audi Tmeaningwas , at fuchtimeas I determined to write the Actions ofthe¥\oxcn\.t people, both within and without the Citie, to begin my Narra- -tion from the year c of the Christian Religion, I 4 4 4. at which time thehou/e of Medici through the merits cfCoiimo and Giouanni hisfather,afpiredtomore reputation then any other in Florence. For I thought thatLeonardo of Arezzo and Poggio(/»7? excellent Historiographers) hadparticulerlyfet downe all things that till thofe dayes had hapned. But hamngafterwards diligently read their writings, to fe

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. The Florentine The of the Audi Tmeaningwas , at fuchtimeas I determined to write the Actions ofthe¥\oxcn\.t people, both within and without the Citie, to begin my Narra- -tion from the year c of the Christian Religion, I 4 4 4. at which time thehou/e of Medici through the merits cfCoiimo and Giouanni hisfather,afpiredtomore reputation then any other in Florence. For I thought thatLeonardo of Arezzo and Poggio(/»7? excellent Historiographers) hadparticulerlyfet downe all things that till thofe dayes had hapned. But hamngafterwards diligently read their writings, to fee with what order andmeanes they proceeded^tothe end that following the fame, our Hiltoriemiq-htbe by the Readers better allowed) 1 foundthat in their defeription ofithewarres madeby the¥\orentines,both againfi Princes and otherforraine States-, they had v fed exceeding great diligence: but of the ciuill difcords and inwardenimities,ejr of the effects by them brought forth,they hadvtterly omitted one part, ejrfo brieflie deferibed the other, as the

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