The Two First Centuries of Florentine History
The Republic and Parties at the Time of Dante. Fourth Impression.
Pasquale Villari, the Italian historian known for his lives of Savonarola and Machiavelli, wrote The Two First Centuries of Florentine History to explain how the Florentine republic took shape. This English version is by his wife, Linda Villari, with a preface by the author written for it. Villari examines the obscure origins of Florence, the rise of the commune and its first wars and reforms, the struggle between the nobles and the merchant guilds, the conflicts of Guelfs and Ghibellines, the place of the family in the Italian communes, and the Ordinances of Justice that excluded the magnates from power at the end of the thirteenth century. The result is a social and constitutional history of the city in Dante's age. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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