The Life and Martyrdom of Savonarola (Volume 1); Illustrative of the History of Church and States Connexion. in Two Volumes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1853 Excerpt: ... THE LIFE AND MARTYRDOM OF SAVONAROLA. INTRODUCTION. THE STATE OF ITALY, SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND RELIGIOUS, PRE-VIOUSLY TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. FLORENCE AND ITS REPUBLIC UNDER THE MEDICI. Dechirans a l'envi leur propre Republique, Lions contre Lions, parens centre parens, Combattent follement Potth Le Choix Des Tyrans. Boileac, Sat.-' "Dinuni la cagione Ferche l'ha tanta discordia assalita F Superbia, invidia e avarizia sono Le tre faville c'hanno i cuori accesi." Dajjte, L'Inferno, Canto vi. Denina, in a parallel between the Republics of Italy of the middle ages, and those of ancient Italy under the Romans, observes, "Whoever reads in the annals of Lombardy, and in the old chronicles of Tuscany, how the free people passed so quickly into external wars, and civil tumults, from war to peace, from amity to enmity, and kept up a perpetual succession of alliances, insurrections and discord--might imagine the accounts were reproduced descriptions, under different names, of the wars of the Romans with the Latins and with the Volsci, and the continual quarrels of the people with the Patricians, and of the senate with the tribunes; and perhaps, in reading VOL. I. B the Florentine History of Scipio Ammirato, one might fancy he had before him the work of Livy rendered into Italian. "The mode of intimating and making wars, and concluding peace, that was practised in ancient Italy in the times of Camillus and of Pyrrhus, does not materially differ from that of the times of Frederick the Second and of Manfred. "And within towns and cities also, alike were the haughtiness of the nobles towards the people, and the injustice of the people in their demands when they began to feel their own strength, and to meddle in matters of government. The one and the other, I say, were ...