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kind of virtu Cesare represented and that he wants to
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recommend for those who follow him.
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"Once the duke," that's Cesare himself--
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"Once the duke had taken over the Romana,"
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an area outside of Florence,
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"he found it had been commanded by impotent lords
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who had been readier to despoil their subjects
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than to correct them and had given their subjects matter
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for disunion, not union.
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So Cesare put there," he says "Messer Ramiro d'Orco,
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a cruel and ready man to whom he gave the fullest power."
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So Cesare set up as a lieutenant of his