A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2)
CHAPTER VIII.
Guilty or not guilty again.—Mediæval Clanship.—A woman's vengeance.—Funeral honours.—Royal-mindedness.—Its costliness; and its mode of raising the wind.—Taxes spent in alms to ruined tax-payers.—Threatening times.—Giovanni de' Medici.—Catherine once more wife, mother, and widow 223