开始时，财政收入和富人的财力至少还可 以在意大利各地修建堂皇的私人建筑或公家建筑，但到了最后，由于管理不善，财力日渐缩小，以致无法使已有的建筑免于颓败。

• In the beginning, the public revenues, and the resources of rich individuals, sufficed at least to cover Italy with splendid edifices, public and private;but at length so dwindled under the enervating influences of misgovernment, that what remained was not even sufficient to keep those edifices from decay.