D'Auvergne, Edmund B. (Edmund Basil) · London, T.W. Laurie · leaf 190
io Emanuele II. The castle wasused often in those days as a state prison, and is now agaol. Outside the town are the ruins of an older castle,once inhabited by the marquises of Ivrea. Giacosa tellsus that down to 1848, in memory of the struggles of thetown with the neighbouring marquises of… … n,:ri^^ CHAPTER VII THREE CASTLES NEAR FLORENCE The feudal system, never very strong in Italy, brokedown during the long struggle between Pope andemperor. The towns, one by one, emerged from thestrife as free republics, and threatened the very exist-ence of the barons to whom they had lately owed…
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