After this, Lucca and Siena yielded at once, partly through hatred and partly through fear of the Florentines; and the Florentines would have had no remedy had he continued to prosper, as he was prospering the year that Alexander died, for he had acquired so much power and reputation that he would have stood by himself, and no longer have depended on the luck and the forces of others, but solely on his own power and ability.
Dopo questo, Lucca e Siena cedeva subito, parte per invidia de' Fiorentini, parte per paura; Fiorentini non avevano remedio: il che se li fusse riuscito (ché li riusciva l'anno medesimo che Alessandro morí), si acquistava tante forze e tanta reputazione, che per sé stesso si sarebbe retto, e non sarebbe più dependuto dalla fortuna e forze di altri, ma dalla potenzia e virtù sua.