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And passing over the decline and fall of Roman dominion and European civilization , and the succeeding ages of darkness and disorder , the first glimmer of returning light greets us from Tuscan genius , and the glory of the bursting day ...
And passing over the decline and fall of Roman dominion and European civilization , and the succeeding ages of darkness and disorder , the first glimmer of returning light greets us from Tuscan genius , and the glory of the bursting day ...
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Neither in the times of Etrurian independence nor Roman dominion does Florence figure in the drama of the world ; but in the ages of anarchy and misrule which followed the dismemberment of the western empire , the lily of the Arno began ...
Neither in the times of Etrurian independence nor Roman dominion does Florence figure in the drama of the world ; but in the ages of anarchy and misrule which followed the dismemberment of the western empire , the lily of the Arno began ...
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The bridge was passed in thoughtless gaiety , but scarcely had he reached the time - worn image of the Roman Mars , the last relic of heathen worship then extant , when the mace of Schiatto degli Uberti felled him to the ground ; and at ...
The bridge was passed in thoughtless gaiety , but scarcely had he reached the time - worn image of the Roman Mars , the last relic of heathen worship then extant , when the mace of Schiatto degli Uberti felled him to the ground ; and at ...
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... when Florence , herself exhausted , was almost at the termination of her race as an independent city . " It happened that a certain Roman cardinal invited the Florentine ambassadors to his house , where one of them , struck with the ...
... when Florence , herself exhausted , was almost at the termination of her race as an independent city . " It happened that a certain Roman cardinal invited the Florentine ambassadors to his house , where one of them , struck with the ...
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In an humble and retired cot- tage at Vaucluse , attended only by his rustic old man and woman , he received on the same day letters from the Roman senator and the chan- cellor of the Parisian university , calling upon him , as in ...
In an humble and retired cot- tage at Vaucluse , attended only by his rustic old man and woman , he received on the same day letters from the Roman senator and the chan- cellor of the Parisian university , calling upon him , as in ...
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