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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.1909 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV THE TWILIGHT OF SIENA WE are nearing the end of our journey. The mediaeval commune, the history of which I set out to trace, perished with the spread of the new civilization bearing the name of the Renaissance. In a formal sense, indeed, the republic of Siena lived far into the new period, but it led a maimed existence, at the mercy of circumstances, and without that splendid vigor which distinguished it in those strictly mediaeval centuries, called by the Italians the dugento and trecento. It was precisely because the town in its creative period exhibited an irrepressible activity and developed an attractive and original civilization that we of another age are content to follow its fortunes and to linger over its works. For the same reason the Age of the Renaissance, a period of unarrested decline, has but a weak claim upon our interest. Still, whoever has followed with sympathy the rise and culmination of this original and perplexing people will not rest until he has given himself the melancholy satisfaction of viewing also the end. We dropped the thread of Sienese political development at the close of the fourteenth century, when the town stood face to face with a score of difficulties which seemed on the point of overwhelming and destroying it. We noted the domestic turmoil of the monti, the industrial and financial depression, the prowling Companies of Adventure, the rebellious nobility--surely a formidable array of evils. But these troubles were not all, for at the moment of this domestic crisis the whole Italian peninsula was swept by a political revolution, the effects of which Siena, remote and provincial though she was, could not hope to escape. In the course of the fourteenth century a movement of concentration had affirmed itself, by...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151127556
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 116
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151127558
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 222 gr

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