Meanwhile, Florence was being harrowed, and that was all to Cesare's satisfaction and advantage.

When sufficiently humbled, it might well befall that the Republic should come on her knees to implore his intervention, and his pardon for having flouted him.
While matters stood so in Arezzo, Pisa declared spontaneously for Cesare, and sent (on June 10) to offer herself to his dominion and to announce to him that his banner was already flying from her turrets--and the growth of Florence's alarm at this is readily conceived.
To Cesare it must have been a sore temptation.

To accept such a pied-a-terre in Tuscany as was now offered him would have been the first great step towards founding that kingdom of his dreams.

An impulsive man had surely gulped the bait.

But Cesare, boundless in audacity, most swift to determine and to act, was not impulsive.