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The builders of Florence (1907)

Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 42

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told upon the twin Arts of the Calimala and Lana,from which it sprang, and with which it had so close a connection.But these were to sink under a succession and combination ofcircumstances which affected them much more directly and fatally.To save expense of carriage, the Arte della Lana set up… … THE SUBSTANCE 23 standard, and henceforth kept this great industry in their ownhands. It is true that Florence still had a great market for hercloths in the South and East, for the Doge Tommaso Mocenigoreports that in his time (1420) Venice took sixteen thousand piecesof Florentine stuffs every…

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