[Footnote 90: More especially by Guicciardini and Machiavel;
in the general history of the former, in the Florentine
history, the Prince, and the political discourses of the
latter. These, with their worthy successors, Fra Paolo and
Davila, were justly esteemed the first historians of modern
languages, till, in the present age, Scotland arose, to
dispute the prize with Italy herself.]