Of the other plays written by Ford alone, only The Chronicle Historie of Perkin Warbeck.
Franconia commenced with Nova litteraria, and Hesse with the Kurze Historie, both in 1725.
He was now driven in upon his books for the employment of a restless temperament; and to this irksomeness of enforced leisure may be ascribed the production of the Principe, the Discorsi, the Arte della guerra, the comedies, and the Historie fiorentine.
In the Historie fiorentine Machiavelli quitted the field of political speculation for that of history.
See Just Matthias Thiele, Christian den Ottende (Copenhagen, 1848); Yngvar Nielsen, Bidrag til Norges Historie (Christiania, 1882-1886).
