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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
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BY FRANK HORRIDGE LIVES OF GREAT ITALIANS
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* Inconsistency in hyphenation is as in the original.
* Three short footnotes have been moved into the main text, rendered as [Footnote: ...]
* The layout of the advertising material has been standardised somewhat, and dashes inserted consistently between reviews and their source. (In most but not all cases, a dash was present if the source was on the same line, but not if on a different line. This distinction is impossible to preserve in an e-text.)
* Two misprinted accents on the French have been moved onto the correct letter.
* Page 161: the first word on the page has been changed from "or" to "for" (there is a gap, and this best fits the context).