. The Florentine THE SEVENTH BOOKE. O thofe that haue read the former Booke, it may feeme in writingoi Florence, and the proceedings of the Florentines ^vje hau e ouer-much fpoken of fuch accidents as hapned in Lombard) and theKingdome. Neuerthelefie, as heretofore I haue, fo am I hereafterto continue with the like difcourfes. For albeit I did not promifeto write of matters concerning ltdy, yet haue I thought good tofpeake of thofe, that were in that countreymoft notable. For if Ifhould not make mention of them, our hiftorie would be with more djffkultievnderftood, and to the Reader
. The Florentine THE SEVENTH BOOKE. O thofe that haue read the former Booke, it may feeme in writingoi Florence, and the proceedings of the Florentines ^vje hau e ouer-much fpoken of fuch accidents as hapned in Lombard) and theKingdome. Neuerthelefie, as heretofore I haue, fo am I hereafterto continue with the like difcourfes. For albeit I did not promifeto write of matters concerning ltdy, yet haue I thought good tofpeake of thofe, that were in that countreymoft notable. For if Ifhould not make mention of them, our hiftorie would be with more djffkultievnderftood, and to the Readers le{,bicaufetheadions of otherpeople and Princes ofltaly, did occaiion the warres, wherein the Florentines wereforced to intermeddl e, as of the warre of Gioiuinm de Angio, and King Ferrmdo great,enimitiegrew, which was after betwixt Ferrmdo and the Florentines^ and withthehoufeofc^/MWcontinued. FortheKingcomplained, that the Flo-rentines did not onely leaue him in that warre vnaided, but
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