The Florentine History, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Chadwick, Edward Marion

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440055580 ISBN 13: 9781440055584

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Excerpt from The Florentine History, Vol. 1 of 2
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Blessed and Holy Father, from the time when your Holiness, then in a less exalted station, first charged me to write the History of the Florentine people, I have used all diligence, and therewith whatever skill Nature or Experience hath given me, to satisfy your wishes. And being now come to treat of those times wherein by the death of the Magnificent Lorenzo de Medici the face of affairs in Italy became changed, and having to discourse of the events that followed thereafter in a fuller and loftier style, suited to their greater dignity and importance, I have thought fit to reduce all that I have written concerning matters of earlier date into a single volume, and present it to your Holiness, that you may begin in some part to taste the fruits of the seed sown by you, whereon I have laboured. In reading these writings your Holiness will see in the first place through how many calamities, and how many changes of Rulers and Governments, Italy passed for several ages after the power of the Roman Empire began to decline in the West. You will also see how within that country the Popes, the Venetians, the VOL. i.
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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440055580
• ISBN 13: 9781440055584
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316