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oldstone. As early as 1378, in the tumulto dei Ciompi,*one of the first determined manifestations of the self-consciousness and power of those citizens, who wereredoubling their efforts to shake off the bonds of servitudeimposed upon them by the ancient aristocracy, a namewas borne for the first… … .^4^>e5>, t54iln,£!yL^ Jz^^^iO^-^^ cZe/> ^^Z^^x^y^iybi^ THE CONDOTTIERE SPIRIT 41 Who was the first of the house of Medici to grasp inits full significance the future that lay before a peopledaily growing more conscious of its own strength, andto bequeath the watchword Popolo to children…
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