Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . pted in the Florentine Cathedral at the momentwhen the young cardinal, Raffaele Riario, is elevating thehost—how the chivalrous and beloved Giuliano is slaughteredand I/Orenzo escapes—and how the Florentines take vengeancefor the cowardly and brutal murder and shout with exultationas they see the corpses of Francesco Pazzi and his accomplice,the Archbishop of Pisa, dangl


Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . pted in the Florentine Cathedral at the momentwhen the young cardinal, Raffaele Riario, is elevating thehost—how the chivalrous and beloved Giuliano is slaughteredand I/Orenzo escapes—and how the Florentines take vengeancefor the cowardly and brutal murder and shout with exultationas they see the corpses of Francesco Pazzi and his accomplice,the Archbishop of Pisa, dangling from a window of the PalazzoVecchio—all this will be told fully in the chapter on for Raffaele, who was perhaps not an accomplice but atool, he was imprisoned, but finally released, as his guiltcould not be wholly proved; but he bore, it is said, forthe rest of his life a terrified expression on his pallid his wrath at the failure of this murderous plot. PopeSixtus incited wars against I^orenzo and laid Florence underInterdict, and though it defied his thunderbolts it sufferedserious defeats. Then lyorenzo, to save his country fromdisaster, most gallantly undertook a perilous journey to242. 20. Pope Sixtus IV and Pi<atina


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