The History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent : Together with the Prince, and Various Historical TractsG. Bell, 1898 - 522 pages |
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... laws of Florence , for the sake of enjoying the honours which the republic had to bestow . Thirteen times they enjoyed the rank of Gonfaloniere of Justice , and fifty - three different members of the family were at various times elected ...
... laws of Florence , for the sake of enjoying the honours which the republic had to bestow . Thirteen times they enjoyed the rank of Gonfaloniere of Justice , and fifty - three different members of the family were at various times elected ...
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... laws , customs , modes of living , religion , language , and name . Any one of such changes , by itself , without being united with others , might , with thinking of it , to say nothing of the seeing and suffering , infuse terror into ...
... laws , customs , modes of living , religion , language , and name . Any one of such changes , by itself , without being united with others , might , with thinking of it , to say nothing of the seeing and suffering , infuse terror into ...
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... laws and useful regulations , enjoyed themselves in security amid the devastations of Italy , and soon increased both in reputation and strength . For , besides the inhabitants already mentioned , many fled to these places from the ...
... laws and useful regulations , enjoyed themselves in security amid the devastations of Italy , and soon increased both in reputation and strength . For , besides the inhabitants already mentioned , many fled to these places from the ...
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... laws ; Lucca was under the Guinigi ; Sienna was free . The Genoese , being sometimes free , at others subject to the kings of France or the Visconti , lived unrespected , and may be enumerated among the minor powers . None of the ...
... laws ; Lucca was under the Guinigi ; Sienna was free . The Genoese , being sometimes free , at others subject to the kings of France or the Visconti , lived unrespected , and may be enumerated among the minor powers . None of the ...
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... laws , and abroad with arms , the pope died , and after a dispute , which continued two years , Gregory X. was elected , being then in Syria , where he had long lived ; but not having witnessed the working of parties , he did not ...
... laws , and abroad with arms , the pope died , and after a dispute , which continued two years , Gregory X. was elected , being then in Syria , where he had long lived ; but not having witnessed the working of parties , he did not ...
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Page 521 - English Translation on opposite pages, Notes, Introduction, and Glossary, by Rev. S. Fox, MA To which is added the Anglo-Saxon Version of the METRES OF BOETHIUS, with a free Translation by Martin F.