The renaissance: its art and life; Florence (1450-1550) (1908)
Brinton, Selwyn, 1859-1940 · Paris, New York [etc.] Goupil & Co. · leaf 466
id of abravo named Scoronconcolo, killed Alessandro while he was half asleep; and,leaving the dead body in his Palace of the Larga, took horse to Venice. There, when he told the exile Filippo Strozzi of his fell deed, he waswelcomed by him as a second Brutus : but Florence was already too… … THE FALL OF FLORENCE. 197 What one feels is that at this time in Florence, as similarly in thehistory of Rome, party hatred had grown so intense, so embittered thatany form of self-government had become, even in the opinion of herbetter citizens, a thing impossible; and, as the Romans had rallied…
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