_First Edition, November, 1899_ _Second Edition, June, 1903_ _Third Edition, November, 1903_ _Fourth Edition February, 1905_ _Fifth Edition, July, 1908_ _Sixth Edition, May, 1910_ During the last twenty years the patient researches of successive students in the archives of North Italian cities have been richly rewarded. The State papers of Milan and Venice, of Ferrara and Modena, have yielded up their treasures; the correspondence of Isabella d'Este, in the Gonzaga archives at Mantua, has proved a source of inexhaustible wealth and knowledge. A flood of light has been thrown on the history of Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; public events and personages have been placed in a …
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