The family of Sforza 24 Giacomo Piccinino 25 Later attempts of the Condottieri 26 CHAPTER IV. THE PETTY TYRANNIES. The Baglioni of Perugia 28 Massacre in the year 1500 31 Malatesta, Pico, and Petrucci 33 CHAPTER V. THE GREATER DYNASTIES. The Aragonese at Naples 35 The last Visconti at Milan 38 Francesco Sforza and his luck 39 Galeazzo Maria and Ludovic Moro 40 The Gonzaga at Mantua 43 Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino 44 The Este at Ferrara 46 CHAPTER VI. THE OPPONENTS OF TYRANNY. The later Guelphs and Ghibellines 55 The conspirators 56 Murders in church 57 Influence of ancient tyrannicide 57 Catiline as an ideal 59 Florentine view of tyrannicide 59 The people and tyrannicide 60 CHAPTER VII. THE REPUBLICS: VENICE AND FLORENCE. Venice in the fifteenth century 62 The inhabitants 63 Dangers from the poor nobility 64 Causes of the stability of Venice 65 The Council of Ten and political trials 66 Relations with the Condottieri 67 Optimism of Venetian foreign policy 68 Venice as the home of statistics 69 Retardation of the Renaissance 71 Mediæval devotion to reliques 72 Florence from the fourteenth century 73 Objectivity of political intelligence 74 Dante as a politician 75 Florence as the home of statistics: the two Villanis 76 Higher form of statistics 77 Florentine constitutions and the historians 82 Fundamental vice of the State 82 Political theorists 83