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... enemy of the enlightened and magnificent , and all but perfect Lorenzo de ' Medici , must be an enemy to all true wisdom , as well as to the real interests of Florence , which , at its height of glory and prosperity during Lorenzo's ...
... enemy of the enlightened and magnificent , and all but perfect Lorenzo de ' Medici , must be an enemy to all true wisdom , as well as to the real interests of Florence , which , at its height of glory and prosperity during Lorenzo's ...
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... enemies of human happiness - ferocity and sen- suality — so dominant over all classes ; and in those vices Italy ... enemy , which violently or insidiously put an end to the ages of faith . But classical learning did not thrust religion ...
... enemies of human happiness - ferocity and sen- suality — so dominant over all classes ; and in those vices Italy ... enemy , which violently or insidiously put an end to the ages of faith . But classical learning did not thrust religion ...
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... enemy , the King of Naples ; he had brought back to imperilled Florence , security to his own government . But the Pazzi conspiracy is so fearfully illustrative of the state of Italian , of Papal morals , at the time when Savonarola ...
... enemy , the King of Naples ; he had brought back to imperilled Florence , security to his own government . But the Pazzi conspiracy is so fearfully illustrative of the state of Italian , of Papal morals , at the time when Savonarola ...
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... enemies which represents Lorenzo as racked with remorse by three sins of his life , the massacre at Volterra ( which was no deed of his , but one of those dreadful accidents of war for which not even the commander of the forces at ...
... enemies which represents Lorenzo as racked with remorse by three sins of his life , the massacre at Volterra ( which was no deed of his , but one of those dreadful accidents of war for which not even the commander of the forces at ...
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... enemies . In place of the old battle - cries of Guelf and Ghibelline , White and Grey , Palleschi ( Medicean ) , or popular , had grown up new names of religious partisanship , the Piagnoni , who with Savonarola mourned over the sins of ...
... enemies . In place of the old battle - cries of Guelf and Ghibelline , White and Grey , Palleschi ( Medicean ) , or popular , had grown up new names of religious partisanship , the Piagnoni , who with Savonarola mourned over the sins of ...
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