Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors Architects of the Order of St. Dominic, Vol. 2 of 2
The failure of Savonarola's attempted Reform, with which we closed the first volume of these Memoirs, soon produced its fruits. For when the ambition of Lodovico, (called il Moro,) had opened a high road for the stranger to march into the fair Land "enclosed by the Alps and sea," Italy, instead of finding her children banded together for her defence, beheld them drawing their parricidal swords to stab her to the heart. Then, indeed, this hapless soil, conquered without the dignity of a patriotic struggle, was overrun and harried by mercenary hordes; and turned into a toumey-field, where Spaniard, Teuton, and Frenchman jousted for every acre of the peninsula.
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