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The builders of Florence (1907)

Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 288

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sof the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were the aspect assumed inFlorence by the world-wide struggle for dominion between theEmpire and the Church. In our last chapter we have seen theshaping of the Church in mediaeval form. Now we must look,however briefly and superficially, at the opposing… … oi\e c/ Hie eanie/l double towecr SAN STEFANO AND THE GHIBELLINES 269 by the opposition they encountered. The struggles of Church andEmpire had their fruitful result in the mutual interaction thatshaped these contrasted powers. Nay more, for, as we shall see,their pressure upon Florence from…

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