Seditious speech

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy secondary

A seditious plebeian justifies continuing arson, robbery, and plunder to secure impunity and to turn the disunity of enemies into victory; he argues that conscience and religion matter little when facing hunger, prison, or death, and urges taking power by force and oath-bound mutual defense.

citizens for each of the superior magistracies, who, with Syndics of the arts, were to consider what could be done to restore quite, and report their resolutions to the Signors. While these things were in progress, a disturbance arose, much more injurious to the republic than anything that had hitherto occurred. The greatest part of the fires and robberies which took place on the previous days were perpetrated by th…