might turn this visit to advantage, for
he knew the man very intimately, gave a sign to Federigo to leave the
apartment, and he, guessing the cause, under pretense of going for
something that was wanted on the table, left them together. Cosmo, after
a few friendly expressions addressed to Il Farnagaccio, gave him a small
slip of paper, and desired him to go to the director of the hospital of
Santa Maria Nuova, for one thousand one hundred ducats; he was to take
the hundred for himself, and carry the thousand to the Gonfalonier,
and beg that he would take some suitable occasion of coming to see
him. Farnagaccio undertook the commission, the money was paid, Bernardo
became more humane, and Cosmo was banished to Padua, contrary to the
wish of Rinaldo, who earnestly desired his death. Averardo and many
others of the house of Medici were also banished, and with them Puccio
and Giovanni Pucci. To silence those who were dissatisfied with the
banishment of Cosmo, they endowed with the power of a Balia, the Eight
of War and the Capitano of the People. After his sentence, Cosmo on the
third of October, 1433, came before the Signory, by whom the boundary
to which he was restricted was specified; and they advised him to avoid
passing it, unless he wished them to proceed with greater severity both
against himself and his property. Cosmo received his sentence with a
cheerful look, assuring the Signory that wherever they determined to
send him, he would willingly remain. He earnestly begged, that as they
had preserved his life they would protect it, for he knew there were
many in the piazza who were desirous to take it; and assured them, that
wherever he might be, himself and his means were entirely at the service
of the city, the people, and the Signory. He was respectfully attended
by the Gonfalonier, who retained him in the palace till night, then
conducted him to his own house to supper, and caused him to be escorted
by a strong armed force to his place of banishment. Wherever the
cavalcade passed, Cosmo was honorably received, and was publicly visited
by the Venetians, not as an exile, but with all the respect due to one
in the highest station.

Florence, widowed of so great a citizen, one so generally beloved,
seemed to be universally sunk in despondency; victors and the vanquished
were alike in fear. Rinaldo, as if inspired with a presage of his future
calamities, in order not to appear deficient to himself or his party,
assemb