. Florence in poetry, history and art . e sleet and snow, That brave young spirit of long ago. Lo! as he slept at midnights prime,Plis tent had the glory of summer time;Shining out of a wondrous light,The Lord Christ beamed on his dazzled was the beggar, the Lord Christ said,As he stood by the soldiers lowly bed;Half of the garment thou gavest Me,With the blessing of heaven I dower Martin rose from the hallowed trystSoldier and servant and knight of Elizabeth Sangster. The small church of San Martino now stand-ing, was formerly only the chapel of the largerchur
. Florence in poetry, history and art . e sleet and snow, That brave young spirit of long ago. Lo! as he slept at midnights prime,Plis tent had the glory of summer time;Shining out of a wondrous light,The Lord Christ beamed on his dazzled was the beggar, the Lord Christ said,As he stood by the soldiers lowly bed;Half of the garment thou gavest Me,With the blessing of heaven I dower Martin rose from the hallowed trystSoldier and servant and knight of Elizabeth Sangster. The small church of San Martino now stand-ing, was formerly only the chapel of the largerchurch which was built and presented to themonks of the Badia, or Abbey, as the Bene-dictines were called—by the Countess early came here from Cluny, and laterothers came from Monte Casino, near Naples. St. Benedict was born in the year 480, so wewe see that Florence, though so wondrouslyaroused and stimulated into new life and enthu-siasm and religious fervor by the coming of theFranciscans and Dominicans in the years 1212 24. St. Benedict and St. MichaelAcademy, Florence Pietro Perugino The Saints. and 1220,—wliich religious fervor called forthher handmaidens Art and Poetry, till then dor-mant—she had for centuries within her wallsthe older Order of Benedictines busily engagedin illuminating and copying priceless manu-scripts. Their church of the Badia contains master-pieces of painting and sculpture and their mon-astery court contains ancient towers, one ofwhich was occupied by the Podesta, or foreigngovernor of Florence. That office was established by the Republicin 1199. There were even then, many wealthy,influential families in Florence, not the least ofwhich were the Medici, and to prevent the pos-sibility of any one of them predominating, alaw was passed that a foreigner must be chosenas Podesta—a title which expresses potency,magistracy, from the latin form, potestas—power. In 1261 the Podesta took up his abodein the palace built and named for his titl
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