When the affair reached the ears of the Podesta, he made no little stir about it; but, being informed by some of his friends, that 'twould not have happened,but that the Florentines were minded to shew him,that, in place of the judges he should have brought with him, he had brought but gowks, to save expense,he deemed it best to say no more about it, and so for that while the matter went no further.
[1] It was owing to their internal dissensions that the Florentines were from time to time fain to introduce these stranger Podestas.