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Cennami replied, that they had long been governed by him, and led
about against the enemy, to die either by hunger or the sword, but were
resolved to govern themselves for the future, and demanded the keys of
the city and the treasure. Pagolo said the treasure was consumed, but
the keys and himself were in their power; he only begged that as his
command had begun and continued without bloodshed, it might conclude
in the same manner. Count Francesco conducted Pagolo and his son to the
duke, and they afterward died in prison.

The departure of the count having delivered Lucca from her tyrant, and
the Florentines from their fear of his soldiery, the former prepared for
her defense, and the latter resumed the siege. They appointed the
count of Urbino to conduct their forces, and he pressed the Lucchese
so closely, that they were again compelled to ask the assistance of the
duke, who dispatched Niccolo Piccinino, under the same pretense as he
previously sent Count Francesco. The Florentine forces met him on his
approach to Lucca, and at the passage of the Serchio a battle ensued, in
which they were routed, the commissary with a few of his men escaping
to Pisa. This defeat filled the Florentines with dismay, and as the
enterprise had been undertaken with the entire approbation of the great
body of the people, they did not know whom to find fault with, and
therefore railed against those who had been appointed to the management
of the war, reviving the charges made against Rinaldo. They were,
however, more severe against Giovanni Guicciardini than any other,
declaring that if he had wished, he might have put a period to the war
at the departure of Count Francesco, but that he had been bribed with
money, for he had sent home a large sum, naming the party who had been
intrusted to bring it, and the persons to whom it had been delivered.
These complaints and accusations were carried to so great a length that
the captain of the people, induced by the public voice, and pressed by
the party opposed to the war, summoned him to trial. Giovanni appeared,
though full of indignation. However his friends, from regard to their
own character, adopted such a course with the Capitano as induced him to
abandon the inquiry.

After this victory, the Lucchese not only recovered the places that had
belonged to them, but occupied all the country of Pisa except Beintina,
Calcinaja, Livorno, and Librafatta; and, had not a conspiracy been
discove