Val D'arno
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781419192241
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; General; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: 1. On this day, of this month, the 20th of October, six hundred and twenty-three years ago, the merchants and tradesmen of Florence met before the church of Santa Croce; marched through the city to the palace of their Podesta; deposed their Podesta; set over themselves, in his place, a knight belonging to an inferior city; called him "Captain of the People;" appointed under him a Signory of twelve Ancients chosen from among themselves; hung a bell for him on the tower of the Lion, that he might ring it at need, and gave him the flag of Florence to bear, half white, and half red.
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