Serezzana, 243; created lord of Lucca, 243; honoured by Frederic of Bavaria, 243; enters into a league with Matteo Visconti, Prince of Mflan, 245 ; the Poggio family rebel against, 245; destroys the Poggio family, 247; builds a fortress in Lucca, 247; takes Pistoia, 249; assists Enrico, German governor of Rome, 250; defeats the Florentines, 254; Benedetto Lanfranchi conspires against, 256; Florentines send an enormous army against, 257; gives battle on the banks of the Amo, 259; wins a complete victory, 261; contracts a fatal illness, 262; his address to Pagolo Guinigi, 262-5; his death, 265; is buried at San Francesco at Lucca, 265; his appearance and character, 266; several anecdotes of, 267-72; was not inferior to Philip of Macedon or Scipio of Rome, 272
Cesare Borgia. See Borgia
Charles VII. of France, liberates France from the English, 110; established ordinances for men-at-arms and infantry, 110; his ordinance, if carried out, would have made France unconquerable, 111
Charles VIII. of France, his conduct compared with that of Louis XIL, 22; allowed to seize Italy, 98; over-ran Italy, 103
Church, Roman, a dominant power in Italy, 92; not the intention of Alexander VI. to aggrandise the, 93; became heir to all Alexander's labours, 93; strong at the election of Julius II., 93
Cities, three ways to govern conquered, 39; of Germany, 86
Citizens, who solely by good fortune become princes experience difficulties in maintaining their position, 53; easy for a courageous prince to keep steady the minds of his, 88
Colonies, should be established in new principalities, 18; more advantageous than maintaining troops in conquered dominions, 19
Colonna, Cardinal, one who had been injured by Duke Valentino, 63
Colonnesi, the, averse to the aggrandisement of the Pope, 55; beaten by the Duke Valentino, 56; kept within bounds by Julius II., 94
Commodus, Emperor, cruel and rapacious, 157; inherited the Empire, 160; conspired against and killed, 160
Cruelty, a prince ought not to mind reproach of, 133; a new prince cannot avoid the imputation of, 134
Cyrus, an excellent example of one who by ability rose to be a prince, 46; not inferior to Moses, 46; could not have succeeded without use of force, 49 ; imitated by Scipio, 118; Xenophon's life of, 118; liberal with the results of pillage, 129
Darius, kingdom of, 31 ; government of, 34 ; princes made by, in Greece and Ionia, 53 David, offered his services to Saul, 110; but rejects Saul's weapons, 110
Ferdinand of Spain, ravaged Italy, 103; his aid invoked by Julius II., 107; his deeds all great, and some extraordinary, 177; used religion as a plea to undertake great schemes, 178
Ferrara, Duke of, attacked by Venetians, and by Pope Julius II., 11
