XLIV

1. And thou shalt not, Firenze 1766, and thou shalt not 

2. sequestrate for debt any farm implement 

3. nor any yoke ox nor 
4. any peasant while he works with the same. 

5. Pietro Leopoldo

6. Heavy grain crop unsold 
7. never had the Mount lacked for specie, cut rate to four and 1/3rd 
   
   
8. creditors had always been paid, 
9. that trade inside the Grand Duchy be free of impediments 
10. shut down on grain imports 
11. ’83, four percent legal maximum interest 
12. ’85, three on church investments, motu proprio
13. Pietro Leopoldo 

14. Ferdinando EVVIVA!! 

15. declared against exportation 
16. thought grain was to eat 
    
    
17. Flags trumpets horns drums 
18. and a placard
19. VIVA FERDINANDO 
20. and were sounded all carillons
21. with bombs and with bonfires and was sung TE DEUM 
22. in thanks to the Highest for this so 
23. provident law 
24. and were lights lit in the chapel of Alexander
25. and the image of the Madonna unveiled 
26. and sung litanies and then went to St Catherine’s chapel 
27. in S. Domenico and by the reliquary 
28. of the Saint’s head sang prayers and 
29. went to the Company Fonte Giusta
30. also singing the litanies 
31. and when was this thanksgiving ended the cortege 
32. and the contrade with horns drums 
33. trumpets and banners went to the 
34. houses of the various ambulant vendors, then were the sticks of the 
35. flags set in the stanchions on the Palace of the Seignors
36. and the gilded placard between them 
37. (thus ended the morning) 
38. meaning to start in the afternoon 
39. and the big bell and all bells of the tower in the piazza 
40. sounded from 8 a.m. until seven o’clock in the evening
41. without intermission and next day was procession 
42. coaches and masks in great number 
43. and of every description e di tutte le qualità
44. to the sound always of drums and trumpets 
45. crying VIVA FERDINANDO and in all parts of the piazza 
46. were flames in great number and grenades burning 
47. to sound of bombs and of mortaretti and the shooting of 
48. guns and of pistols and in chapel of the Piazza 
49. a great number of candles for the publication of this so 
50. provident law and at sundown were dances 
51. and the masks went into their houses 
52. and the captains of the ward companies, 
53. the contrade, took their banners to the Piazza Chapel 
54. where once more they sang litanies 
55. and cried again Ferdinando EVVIVA 
56. Evviva Ferdinado il Terzo
57. and from the contrade continued the drumming 
58. and blowing of trumpets and hunting horns, 
59. torch flares, grenades and they went to the Piazza del Duomo 
60. with a new hullabaloo gun shots mortaretti and pistols
61. there were no streets not ablaze with the torches 
62. or with wood fires and straw flares 
63. and the vendors had been warned not to show goods for 
64. fear of disorder and stayed all that day within doors 
65. or else outside Siena. This was a law called 
66. Dovizia annonaria
67. to be freed from the Yoke of Licence 
68. From October 9th until the 3rd of November 
69. was unforeseen jubilation, four lines of tablet in marble: 
70. Frumentorum licentia 

71. coercita de annonaria laxata Pauperum aeque 
72. divitium bono conservit 
73. FERDINANDI 1792 
74. refused to take with him objects of small bulk which he 
75. held to be the property of the nation. Ferd III. 1796 
76. that the sovereign be il più galantuomo del paese
     
77. the citizen priest Fr Lenzini mounted the tribune 
78. to join the citizen Abrâm 
79. and in admiring calm sat there with them the citizen 
80. the Archbishop 
81. from 7,50 a bushel to 12 
82. by the 26th April 
83. and on June 28th came men of Arezzo 
84. past the Porta Romana and went into the ghetto 
85. there to sack and burn hebrews 
86. part were burned with the liberty tree in the piazza 
87. and for the rest of that day and night 
88. 1799 anno domini 
89. Pillage stopped by superior order 3rd July was discovered a
90. treason
91. in the cartridges given the troops 
92. that is were full of semolina, not powder 
93. and cherry stone where shd/have been ball 
94. and in others too little powder 
95. Respectons les prêtres, remarked Talleyrand 
96. 1800 a good grain and wine year 
97. if you wd/get on well with the peasantry 
98. of the peninsula. 
99. Premier Brumaire: 
100. Vous voudrez citoyen
101. turn over all sums in yr/ cash box 
102. to the community, fraternité, greetings. 
103. Delort 
104. acting for Dupont Lieutenant General 
105. Louis King of Etruria, Primus, absolute, without constitution. 
106. taxes so heavy that are thought to be more than 
107. paid by subjects of Britain. 
108. Gen. Clarke to the Ministro degli Esteri
109. Whereas the fruits of the Mount were the 2/3rds of the one percent 
110. wherewith to pay all current expenses. Madame ma soeur et cousine
111. I have received Your Majesty’s letter of 
112. November twenty-fourth I 
113. suppose that in the actual circumstances 
114. She will be in a hurry to get to Spain or at least to 
115. leave a country where she can no longer 
116. stay with the dignity befitting her rank. 
117. I have given orders that she be 
118. received in my kingdom of Italy 
119. and in my French States with honours that are due her.
120. If your Majesty should be in Milan or Turin 
121. before the 18th of december I should have the 
122. advantage of seeing her. I am sending an officer my 
123. aide de camp, General Reile who will deliver this letter. 
124. He will be charged at the same time to take measures 
125. for the security of the country and 
126. to remove men who could trouble its quiet, 
127. since I learn that Your Majesty has already thought necessary 
128. to import troops from Lisbon. 
129. My troops shd have by now entered that capital 
130. and taken possession of Portugal 
131. Wherewith I pray God, Madam my sister and cousin, 
132. he be pleased to have you in holy and worthy keeping 
     
     
133. At Venice, december fifth 1807 
134. Your Majesty’s kind brother and cousin 
135. NAPOLEON 
136. (his secretary mixing the pronouns You, She, she all to Majesty) 
137. And those men who ‘with bestial enthusiasm’ took horse place 
138. were, says the much lesser Bandini, paid by the prefect 
139. and beforehand prepared. 
     
     
140. “Artists high rank, in fact sole social summits 
141. which the tempest of politics can not reach,”
142. which remark appears to have been made by 
143. Napoleon 
144. And ‘Semiramis’ 1814 departed from Lucca 
145. but her brother’s law code remains. 
monumento di civile sapienza
146. dried swamps, grew cotton, brought in merinos 
147. mortgage system improved 
148. ‘Thank god such men be but few’
149. though they build up human courage 
150. And before him had been Pietro Leopoldo 
151. that wished state debt brought to an end; 
152. that put the guilds under common tribunal; 
153. that left names only as vestige of feudal chain; 
154. that lightened mortmain that princes and church be under tax 
155. as were others; that ended the gaolings for debt; 
156. that said thou shalt not sell public offices; 
157. that suppressed so many gabelle; 
158. that freed the printers of surveillance 
159. and wiped out the crime of lèse majesty; 
160. that abolished death as a penalty and all tortures in prisons 
161. which he held were for segregation; 
162. that split common property among tillers; 
163. roads, trees, and the wool trade, 
164. the silk trade, and a set price, lower, for salt; 
165. plus another full page of such actions Habsburg Lorraine 
166. His son the Third Ferdinando, cut taxes by half, 
167. improved tillage in Val di Chiana, Livorno porto franco. 
     
     
168. and this day came Madame Letizia, 
169. the ex-emperor’s mother, and on the 13th departed. 
     
     
170. ‘The foundation, Siena, has been to keep bridle on usury.’
171. Nicolò Piccolomini, Provveditore.