... before her, never goes beyond conjecture. The most valuable part of Miss Tosello’s work is to be found in Chapter I11 : “Influenze del Nardi e del Villari.” She contends that George Eliot drew from the reference works consulted in Florence only those materials she needed...

... That the Savonarola who dominates the pages of Romola was inspired by Villari, Miss Tosello does not deny. It is her contention that the two historians, the one contemporaneous with the events George Eliot recorded and the other writing some three centuries after their occurrence, each exerted his own...

... was inspired by Villari, Miss Tosello does not deny. It is her contention that the two historians, the one contemporaneous with the events George Eliot recorded and the other writing some three centuries after their occurrence, each exerted his own sep- arate influence upon the novelist. Miss...

... in their proper perspective. The popular misinterpretation of Machiavelli’s work was aided by the virulent attacks upon him by churchmen, both Catholic and Protestant. Villari has told of how Machiavelli was burned in effigy at Ingolstadt and of the bitter attacks upon him by Cardinal Pole...

..., in Kidolfi’s Vita di Niccoli, Machiuuelli (also 1954). l’he problem that remains to be tackled is to revise ex nouo the interpretation of Machiavelli’s works in the light of the new biography we finally have of him as a worthy man, not as the satanic creature passed off by Villari and ?’om- masini...