. European history : an outline of its development. -,Chap. IX. The house of Hapsburg becomes a European power. Leger, Austro- Hungary, 251-255- The scene ofdivision andlocal ,Periods,7-14. 294 Political Changes of the Age [§281 of diplomacy and intrigue, and in these methods Italy wasthe schoolmaster of Europe. Machiavelli, who was for along time the representative of Florence, was one of thefirst great diplomatists of modern The Duomo, Florence 281. The Five Leading States of Italy. — Five states ofItaly are of especial interest in this opening period of inter-Venic
. European history : an outline of its development. -,Chap. IX. The house of Hapsburg becomes a European power. Leger, Austro- Hungary, 251-255- The scene ofdivision andlocal ,Periods,7-14. 294 Political Changes of the Age [§281 of diplomacy and intrigue, and in these methods Italy wasthe schoolmaster of Europe. Machiavelli, who was for along time the representative of Florence, was one of thefirst great diplomatists of modern The Duomo, Florence 281. The Five Leading States of Italy. — Five states ofItaly are of especial interest in this opening period of inter-Venice, national politics. Venice, rich and powerful, but beforethe close of the age to undergo the ruin of her commercialmonopoly, was trying to form a continental dominion innortheastern Italy, and so was intimately concerned in the §282] Frajicc begins the Struggle 295 course of local politics. In Milan, Ludovico the Moor wasplotting to secure the succession in place of his nephew, therightful duke, and so was anxious for any outside assistancepossible. Florence was under the Medici, but was the sceneat the close of the century of great popular excitementaroused by the passionate and eloquent preaching of Sav-onarola, who proclaimed a great religious revival, the neces-sity of righteous living, and the coming of the foreigninvader as the scourge of God upon the wicked, and de-manded the restoration of political liberty to Florence. Inthe State
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