Heredity of the Will. 103 



was of rhiddle- class origin ; in the fourteenth century, Silvestro 

 was Gonfaloniere, or head of the Florentine Republic. 

 Silvestro 



Cosmo 

 Father of his country Lorenzo 



Pietro L 



I 



Lorenzo the 



Pietro II. Giovanni (Leo X.) Giovanni de Medici 



(II grande diavolo) 



Lorenzo II. Cosmo (first Grand-duke) 



Catherine de Medicis Francis I. 



Marie de Medicis 



As regards the relations of the Medicis to the three kings of 

 France, Francis II., Charles IX., and Henry III., see Michelet, 

 Histoire de France, vol. ix. He gives some very ill-digested 

 physiological details. 



MIRABEAU. In the opinion of his father, the ' Friend of Man ' 

 (ami dcs homines], possessed ' all the vile qualities of his mater- 

 nal stock.* 



'The correspondence of the great tribune's father and uncle, 

 and the notice on the life of his grandfather, give evidence 

 of a peculiar race, and exhibit the characters of a grand 

 and lofty originality. Our Mirabeau needed but to descend 

 from such stock, in order to spread himself abroad, to shower 

 down as he has done, and to give of himself to all, so that 

 we might name him the enfant perdu, the enfant prodigue et 

 sublime of his race/ (Ste.-Beuve.) 

 PEEL, Sir Robert, thrice Premier ; 



Hisfat/ier, a great manufacturer, founded the family; 



Two brothers and three sons of Peel's have held high judicial 



or administrative positions. 



PITT, William, Lord Chatham, Premier in 1766, married a Gren- 

 ville. (See Grenville.) 



His son, William, Premier at twenty-five, the famous rival of Fox j 



