Ridolphi, Giovambatifta di Luigi, elected gonfalonier of Flo rence, ii. 162. Rochefaucault on the end of ambition, i. 132. Rome, laws of Numa, fuppofed to have been fuggefted to him by Egeria, i. xv. ftate of, under its confuls, i. 98. ... government, i. 171. Progrefs of the com Power of the confuls, i. 17. Power of war in the Power of the fenate, i. 172. on the government of, i. 216. Inftitutions of Romulus, cemviri, i. 223. tribunes, i. 223. --- government of, i. 334. Law of the twelve tables, i. 346. government of, contrafted to that of Florence, ii. 50. embaffy of, to Ptolemy Philadelphus, iii. 231. --- centuries and claffes, the state of them, at the time Manlius was condemned, iii. 264. - rife and confequence of factions, iii. 277. the prescriptions of Marius and Sylla, occafioned by the enthufiaim of the people, iii. 279. --fenate of, maintained a continual cabal, and murdered their best princes, iii. 302. - kings of, their greatest fault a too much complaifance to the fenate, ii. 303. the freedom of the ftate of, difputed, iii. 312. never fettled in a freedom of the people; a proof againft Nedham's fyftem, iii. 324. -no fupreme officers but the dictators, iii. 325. the fenate of, fovereign, till the people fet up a perpetual dictator, iii. 326. 146 manners equally pure under the kings, as under the arif tocracy, iii. 347. a review of its condition and happiness under its kings and fenates, ii. 352. people of, owed their fafety to the wisdom of the fe nate, iii. 402. Their arrogance led them into error, iii. 402. -conftitution of, by what means deftroyed, iii. 467. governments unequal, because their conftitutions were unrestrained, iii. 410. Romulus, his government of Rome, i. 216. put to death by the partricians, iii. 302. Rouleau, J. 7. his opinion of a government to be formed by the gods, i. 8. S. Salembini, S. Salimbeni, Andrea, murders a young lady, whom he had taken prifoner, ii. 366. Saluft, a defender of aristocratical government, iii. 353. Salviati oppofes the gonfalonier of Florence, ii. 151. Savanarola's oration on the government of Florence, ii. 144. burnt for preaching against Alexander VI. and the cor ruptions of the court of Rome, ii. 148. Schaffhaufen, account of the canton of, i: 49. Scotto, Alberto, lord of Placentia, chofen captain-general of Cremona, Placentia, and Pavia, and expels Matthew Vifconte from Milan, iii. 138. the lordship of Placentia wrefted from him by the Torriani, iii. 139. - killed, iii. 148. Scali, George, his infolence in the government of Florence, ii. 73. Beheaded, ii. 74. Secrets, betrayers of, hanged upon a gibbet, or burnt alive, at Venice and Rome, iii. 500. Sedition and rebellion recurred to, where corruption has failed, iii. 279. Self-denial, the expectation of, from man, a difbelief of the word of God, iii. 289. Senates, the Roman and Venetian carried all by families, iii. 468. Senators, annual election of, with the authority of king, se nate, and people, confidered, iii. 304. Sermons will never be fufficient to make all men virtuous, iii. 477. Sidney on government by laws only, i, 125. On liberty and flavery, i. 127. ཅ་ ་ his opinion of government, i. 148, Siena, city of, its origin, ii. 251. city of, made a free state by Charlemain, ii. 258. the coaft of, deftroyed by the Saracens, ii. 260. Popolo, the faction of, its origin in, ii. 261, *** commerce enlarged, ii. 260. goes to war with Florence, and obtains a victory, ii. 2646 monuments, towers, &c. erected nigh the houses of thofe who behaved bravely in the engagement with the Florentines, ii. 264. plebeians began to have the appellation of " the people," ii. 267. the plebeians began to have a share in the government, ii. 268. divided into three popular factions, ii. 268. VOL. III, Siena Siena, the Guelphs fhut the gates of the city against the e and defeat his army, ii. 274. peror, - the plebeians attempt at a popular government, and re pulfed, ii. 275. Remonftrances against it, ii. 276. woollen manufacture introduced, ii. 277. -- 140 - a podesta elected, ii. 278. concludes an alliance with Florence, ii. 279. a law made that the podesta should be a foreigner, ii. 283. a faction to fet up a popular government, ii. 285. The fcheme ineffectual, the perfuafion of Malavolti and others against it, 286. Gollucci's reply, 289. --- the popular speakers aim at honours and emoluments, ii. 292. --- diftinctions among the different factions of the city, སྐསྒྱུ་ 410 294. the foldiers and officers ferve without pay, ii. 296. --- Council of Credenza, or Secret Council, its authority, ii. 104 297. obtains a victory over the Florentines, and peace con cluded, ii. 299. a reformation of the government, its ill effects, ii. 300. --- a peace made between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, which caufed another alteration in the government of, ii. 302. Ghibellines and exiles beat the army, ii. 304. Peace com cluded by the interceffion of the pope, 305. the government lodged in thirty-fix magiftrates; reduced to fifteen, in 305. the Ghibellines, headed by N. Niccolo Buonfignori, rais● a civil war, ii. 306. the government vested in nine merchants, ii. 311. --- tyrannical government of the nine magiftrates, ii. 314. the name of nobility deteftable in, ii. 316. 611 the Tolomei and Salimbeni families quarrel with each --the government of nine greatly augment the militia, ü. 319. the people numbered, ii. 326. Salembeni flain, and Tolomei affaffinated; the whole city in tumults and commotions, 327. --the people and the nobles attempt to depofe the nine ma giftrates, ii. 328. Fail in the plot, 349. 4 Siena enters into a new league with Florence, ii. 330. enters into another confederation with Florence, Arezzo, and Perugia, ii. 330. -- the nine magistrates driven out of the palace, ii. 33. --- revolution of the government of, ii. 332. --the patriarch of Aquilea invefted with the fovereignty, ii, 333. 100 1-5 the patriarch voluntarily renounces the government, after a few days, ii. 334. the new government ineffectual, ii. 335. the nobles excluded from the government, and the autho rity lodged in twelve magistrates and a captain, ii. 337. confpiracy against the government, difcovered, ii. 338. Giovanni de Salimbeni, made himself head of a confpiracy, discovered, ii. 339. the nobles artfully difpoffels the twelve magiftrates, and new-model the government, ii. 341, The emperor affifts the old government, who drive out the nobles, 341. the government of, changed into an oligarchical ariftocracy, ii. 342. the different parties raise a civil ii. the emperor made lord of the city, and a new office called the executor created, ii. 353. many of the nobles destroyed and taken prisoners, ii. 355Restored to the city, 357. the company del Bruco raise a tumult, which occafions murders, ravages, and alteration in the government, ii. · 359. -- felling the public revenue commenced, the reason why the public was always in debt, ii. 363. the government of, undergoes another revolution, ii, 372. alterations in the government, ii. 373. The tranquillity foon disturbed by fresh commotions, 374. --the citizens endeavour to put the city into the hands of Galeazzo, ii. 383. the government of, put into the hands of Giovan. Galeazzo Vifconte, conte di Vertu, &c. feveral of the adverse party beheaded; the citizens humbly folicit the privi lege of paffive obedience to their new lord, ii. 385. Sigibert made himself lord of Parma and Reggio, and an ac count of him and his family, iii. 195. Servius, Tullius, murdered by the patricians, to make way for Tarquin, iii. 303. Slavery, Sydney's definition of, i. 127. Smith, Sir Thomas, on governments, i. 207. Sobriety, abftinence, and feverity, never remarkable charac teristics teristics of democracy, particularly proved in Athens, iii. 343. Socrates, his notions of government, i. 322. Soderini's oration, anfwered by Vefpuci for invefting the au thority in the fenate, ii. 140. --elected gonfalonier of Florence for life, ii 149. moft confiderable among the leading men of Florence, ii. 121. the gonfalonier, depofed by the Florentines, and flies to Ragufa, ii. 155. Soleure, account of the canton of, i. 42. Solon, new-models of the government of Athens, i. 98. his government of Athens, i. 145, 266. Sommo Guiliana, a noble Cremonian, made podefta of Plas centia, iii. 140. Spain taken by the Saracens, ii. 260. Sparta, the primitive government of, i. 98. --- on the government of, i. 216. the government of, different from that of a free ftate, iii. 401. ---government of, unequal, iii. 410. Stanislaus, King, his obfervations on the government of Po land, i: 88. State, a free one, what it is, iii. 292. Statesmen, comparison of them, iii, 225. the greatest, formed by their attendance on elections, i 274. Strozzi, Andrea, his rebellion at Florence, ii. 47. Strozzi, Tomafo, his infolence in the government of Florence, ii. 73. Swift, Dr. his opinion of ancient republics, i. 97. on the exorbitant defires of men, i. Sitz, account of the canton of, i. 33. 132. Switzerland, account of the democratical republics of, i. a Cantons of Appenzel, i. 23. Underwald, i. 26. Glaris, i. 28. Zug, i. 31. Uri, i. 32. Switz, i. 33. account of the ariftocratical republics, i. 35. Berne, i. 35. Fribourg, i. 39. Soleure, i. 42. Lucerne, i. 45 rich, i. 47. Schaffhaufen, i. 49. Mulhoufe, i, 50. Bienne, i. 50. St. Gall, i. 5o. Geneva. Sybaris, the government of, i. 327. Sylla, the profcriptions by him and Marius, caused by the enthufiafm of the people, iii. 279 T.Tacites |