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The builders of Florence (1907)

Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 55

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the miracle then, what can it representbut the sense of the eleventh and twelfth centuries when it firstp 34 THE BUILDERS OF FLORENCE had currency—the sense that State and Church were one in theirideal of the City; that this union it was which brought new lifeand strength to Florence, and fairly… … ^hcCrq^yj^obi. column of San Zanobi is of her civic ideal, and the semi-spiritualforce which promised to secure its realisation. But let us pass from the symbol to the facts, which will be foundsignificant enough. In 1138 the Florentine host marched againstthe Castle of the Conte Uguccione at…

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