CONTENTS AND LIST OF CITATIONS VOLUME II CHAPTER XXIII — EUROPE AT THE OPENING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY PAGE I. The Expedition of Charles VIII into Italy 231. Attitude of the Italian states toward France .... 2 Memoires de Philippe de Commynes, livre vii, cc. 3 and 5 ; livre viii, c. 3 ; ed. Mandrot ; trans, with some inaccuracies, in the Bohn Library 231a. Florence and the Medici 6 Ibid, livre vii, c. 6 231b. Savonarola 7 Ibid, livre viii, c. 3 II. Machiavelli on the Troubles in Italy 232. Machiavelli's estimate of Ferdinand the Catholic • . . 9 // Principe, c. 21 ; ed. Burd ; trans, by Thomson (Clarendon Press, 1897) 232a. Should a prince keep his promises 10 Ibid. c. 18 232b. Alexander VI and Caesar Borgia 11 Ibid. c. 7 232c. Machiavelli calls upon the Medici to expel the " bar- barians " 13 Ibid. c. 26 III. The Chevalier Bayard and the Battle of Marignano 233. How Bayard chose the profession of arms 16 Histoire du gentil seigneur de Bayart composee par le loyal Serviteur, c. i ; ed. by Roman, pp. 3-6 (Soc. de l'hist. de Fr., 1878) 233a. How Francis I succeeded Louis XII 17 Ibid. c. 58, pp. 366 sqq. ; c. 59, p. 371 vii
