Florentine Histories
Subtitle: (New translation) Introduction by Harvey Mansfield, Jr.
Contributors: Laura F. Banfield (Translator); Harvey C., Jr. Mansfield (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 3, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780691008639
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Renaissance; History; History - General History; History: World; Italy; Europe - Italy; European History; History / Renaissance; Political Science and International Relations
First sentence: THE peoples who live in northern parts beyond the Rhine and the Danube rivers, having been born in a productive and healthful region, often increase to such a multitude that it becomes necessary for a part of them to abandon their fathers' lands and to seek new countries to inhabit.