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TSE MAKERS OF FLORENCE.
banishment of Cosimo, but ineffectually. He succeeded
better, however, in his conciliatory undertakings with ene-
mies outside, one of whom, King Lancislaus, consented by
his meditation to deliver over to Florence, in payment of
some claims of hers, the rich city of Cortona, a compensa-
tion which the republic accepted joyfully, with that de-
lightful indifference to the independence of other cities
which was characteristic in those days of the very fiercest
and proudest maintainers of their own. Besides this and
other splendid missions—to the Emperor Sigismund, whom
he coaxed into peace, to Pope Martin and others—Agnolo
was three times Gonfaloniere della Giusitzia,and sat over and
over again in the signory. He was “ learned in the Latin
tongue, and especially in philosophy, both moral and
naturaland a friend of Lionardo Aretino, a manuscript
of whose life of Dante was found in the same bundle of
parchment in which Agnolo’s treatise, “ Del Governo della
Famiglia,” had lain dusty but not unknown in the
Pandolfini Palace for nearly four hundred years. His wis-
dom kept him apart from rash and new steps in policy, his
biographer tells us. “ Neither in this novelty nor in any
other would he be of the Eight, or in the position of
counselor to the other citizens,” though he warned Rinaldo,
the head of the Albizzi, against the banishment of Cosimo,
as a step which would bring ruin both to himself and the
city. In nis latter days (he lived to be eighty-six) he retired
to his villa at Signa where he lived a patriarchal life and
wrote his treatise to the admiration of sons and grandsons.
Here is a description of the patriarchal state he held and
the genial hospitality he dispensed in these latter days :
“ Here lie had a most worthy house, full of everything necessary to
the condition of a man of gentle blood—dogs, hawks, and every kind
of nets both for fishing and birding. In this house all guests were
received honorably. He was very liberal, and there being no other
house near Florence of such quality and so well regulated, all the
TSE MAKERS OF FLORENCE.
banishment of Cosimo, but ineffectually. He succeeded
better, however, in his conciliatory undertakings with ene-
mies outside, one of whom, King Lancislaus, consented by
his meditation to deliver over to Florence, in payment of
some claims of hers, the rich city of Cortona, a compensa-
tion which the republic accepted joyfully, with that de-
lightful indifference to the independence of other cities
which was characteristic in those days of the very fiercest
and proudest maintainers of their own. Besides this and
other splendid missions—to the Emperor Sigismund, whom
he coaxed into peace, to Pope Martin and others—Agnolo
was three times Gonfaloniere della Giusitzia,and sat over and
over again in the signory. He was “ learned in the Latin
tongue, and especially in philosophy, both moral and
naturaland a friend of Lionardo Aretino, a manuscript
of whose life of Dante was found in the same bundle of
parchment in which Agnolo’s treatise, “ Del Governo della
Famiglia,” had lain dusty but not unknown in the
Pandolfini Palace for nearly four hundred years. His wis-
dom kept him apart from rash and new steps in policy, his
biographer tells us. “ Neither in this novelty nor in any
other would he be of the Eight, or in the position of
counselor to the other citizens,” though he warned Rinaldo,
the head of the Albizzi, against the banishment of Cosimo,
as a step which would bring ruin both to himself and the
city. In nis latter days (he lived to be eighty-six) he retired
to his villa at Signa where he lived a patriarchal life and
wrote his treatise to the admiration of sons and grandsons.
Here is a description of the patriarchal state he held and
the genial hospitality he dispensed in these latter days :
“ Here lie had a most worthy house, full of everything necessary to
the condition of a man of gentle blood—dogs, hawks, and every kind
of nets both for fishing and birding. In this house all guests were
received honorably. He was very liberal, and there being no other
house near Florence of such quality and so well regulated, all the