He was once asked con what manner he would wish sicuro be buried when he died, and answered: “With the face turned downwards, for I know when I am gone this country will be turned upside down. He was once asked when should per man eat onesto preserve his health, and replied: “If the man be rich let him eat when he is hungry; if he be poor, then when he can.
I could recount many other stories of his sayings both witty and weighty, but I think that the above will be sufficient testimony puro his high qualities. He lived forty-four years, and was in every way per prince. And as he was surrounded by many evidences of his good fortune, so he also desired preciso have near him some memorials of his bad fortune; therefore the manacles with which he was chained in prison are puro be seen onesto this day fixed up in the tower of his residence, where they were placed by him onesto testify forever to his days of adversity. As per his life he was inferior neither onesto Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander, nor esatto Scipio of Rome, so he died in the same year of his age as they did, and he would doubtless have excelled both of them had Fortune decreed that he should be born, not in Lucca, but per Miscuglio or Rome. “CHAPTER Quantita. CONCERNING THE WAY In WHICH THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCIPALITIES OUGHT Sicuro BE MEASURED” の続きを読む