[139] Opere iv. 174. See also dissertation by Rösemeier, _Machiavelli's Erste Legation zum K. Maximilian I., mid seine drei Schriften über Deutschland_. In the main, Machiavelli blames Maximilian, 1st, for his openhandedness; and, as undecided, credulous, and all the more dependent on others, in that he tries not to be. But he qualifies his strictures by saying, "the Emperor is a great general; he bears fatigue like the most hardened soldiers; he is brave in danger and just in governing. When he grants an audience, he is patient and gracious, and is a pattern of many princely virtues." Vettori is not quite so severe--"none can deny," he says, "that he (Max) is wise and circumspect, skilful and untiring in war, and widely experienced. He possesses the confidence of the nation more than any of his predecessors for more than a hundred years; but he is so amiable and kind-hearted, that it makes him yielding and credulous"--quoted Janssen, i. 595. Ludovico Ticiano is less critical when he declares, that "on no general can the soldier rely more implicitly, from none can he expect more boldness in the courting of perils and more skill in meeting them; nor can the burgher wish for any juster or milder prince, or one in whom justness and mildness are so equally poised"--quoted Geiger, p. 346. [140] See Ulmann, i. 200. [141] Despatch of Cornero to Venice, 1508--quoted Huber, iii. 328. [142] Albèri, _Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneti_, Serie I., vi. 27. [143] See Prof. E. Heyck, _Maximilian I._, in the wellknown German series of ideal illustrated monographs. [144] For Maximilian's treatment of Finance, see Ulmann, i. 202, 836-845, and Huber, iii., ch. 6. {125} APPENDIX APPENDIX I Though some reference to Maximilian's relations to the question of Imperial Reform was unavoidable, a detailed account must be sought for rather in an authoritative history of Germany than in an essay which centres round an individual. Hence an appendix seems the most fitting place for dealing with the subject.