Quinet, French historian

Page 6« — I. Savonarole. Savonarola, great Italian preacher (i 452-1 497), won for a time tremendous ascendancy over the people of Florence, who, however, became tired of him and allowed him to be burned alive as a heretic.

2. Michel-Ange. The ch is pronounced as a /(, though in the. simple name Michel it is pronounced sh,

3. Comines. Philippe de Commynes (1447-1 511), historian and chronicler of the times of Louis XI. and Charles VIII.

4. Machiavel. Niccolo Machiavelli (i 469-1 527), great Italian historical and political writer, best known by his theory that the end justifies the means (a " Machiavellian policy "). The ch is pronounced as a k. In the derivatives, however, machiavélique^ machiavélisme, etc., the ch is usually pronounced sh,