Transcriber’s Note: As a result of editorial shortcomings in the original,some reference letters in the text don’t have matching entries in thereference-lists, and vice versa.
[i]
THE HISTORIANS’HISTORYOF THE WORLD
MACCHIAVELLI
[ii]
THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD
A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: edited, with the assistance of a distinguished board of advisers and contributors, by
HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.
IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES
VOLUME IX—ITALY
The Outlook Company New York
The History Association London
1905
[iii]
Copyright, 1904, By HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS.
All rights reserved.
Press of J. J. Little & Co. New York, U. S. A.
[iv]
Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.
Prof. Adolf Erman, University of Berlin.
Prof. Joseph Halévy, College of France.
Prof. Thomas K. Cheyne, Oxford University.
Prof. Andrew C. McLaughlin, University of Michigan.
Prof. David H. Müller, University of Vienna.
Prof. Alfred Rambaud, University of Paris.
Capt. F. Brinkley, Tokio.
Prof. Eduard Meyer, University of Berlin.
Dr. James T. Shotwell, Columbia University.
Prof. Theodor Nöldeke, University of Strasburg.
Prof. Albert B. Hart, Harvard University.
Dr. Paul Brönnle, Royal Asiatic Society.
Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., London.
Prof. Ulrich von Wilamowitz Möllendorff, University of Berlin.