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¹² ‘Nelle Republiche si trovano huomini di maggior vaglia the nelle Monarchie, poiche la concorenza de’ soggetti, the aspirano à Magistrati supremi, opera the chiascheduno procura di avanzar it Compagno di merito, per trapassarlo nella conquista della dignità.’ Traiano Boccalini, La bilancia politica, vol. 1: Osservazioni politiche sopra i sei libri degli Annali di Cornelio Tacito, 2nd edn (Castellana [Geneva], 1678), 508.Google Scholar On Boccalini's Tacitism see Schellhase, (n. 7), 146–9, 226–7.Google Scholar

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³⁰ I thank Paul Ferrara of Queens College, who pointed out this contradiction to me.

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