Strona 310 z 310

I could recount many other stories of his sayings both witty and

weighty, but I think that the above will be sufficient testimony

to his high qualities. He lived forty-four years, and was in

every way a prince. And as he was surrounded by many evidences of

his good fortune, so he also desired to have near him some

memorials of his bad fortune; therefore the manacles with which

he was chained in prison are to be seen to this day fixed up in

the tower of his residence, where they were placed by him to

testify forever to his days of adversity. As in his life he was

inferior neither to Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander,

nor to Scipio of Rome, so he died in the same year of his age as

they did, and he would doubtless have excelled both of them had

Fortune decreed that he should be born, not in Lucca, but in

Macedonia or Rome.