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IN order to render this volume more complete by the elucidation of various parts of the text in those points of history not generally known, ve have thought proper to subjoin an Appendix, contuining an account af Savanarola from a letter of Machiavelli to onę of his friends. That Machiavelli did not believe in the diginity of his mission is abundantly evident; he only considered that hie rendered a service to mankind as being the prooried enemy of the pope, the iniquities of whose spiritual and temporal government qur äuthor loudly exclaimed against.
The conduct of Borgia at Sinigaglia being more than once referred to, we have given the narrative of Machiavelli, who does not justify the deed, though he evidently considered it a partial evil, producing a general good; inasmuch as the parties kept Italy full of commotions and perpetual civil war.
We constantly hear people exclaim against breaches of national faith and the law of nations; and, therefore, we have given our author's farther considerations on that subject in his reflections on Livy, and his portrait of Ferdinand V. of Spain,
