The renaissance: its art and life; Florence (1450-1550) (1908)
Brinton, Selwyn, 1859-1940 · Paris, New York [etc.] Goupil & Co. · leaf 418
g ofhunger ; they would all have been dead men or prisoners. The fact wasthat Soderini, though a man of high character and experience, was notthe man for this crisis; and, yet more, it seems as if these eighteen yearsof war since the first French invasion had broken and daunted the oncefree Italian… … THE FALL OF FLORENCE. 181 of Pistoja and Florence. The Spaniards, suffering already from hungerand knowing that Prato was richly supplied, made a resolute assault :one of their two pieces of artillery burst, but with the other they madea breach in the walls, and at the first blow the country…
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