Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . redruffians prowled in every place where thewayfarer or tradesman was expected to pass. Italy. Though the effort was unsuccessful,the podesfas gained by the conflict, and thearistocracy triumphed everywhere. Pisa fellunder the rule of the family of Faggiola in1314. Two years afterwards the authorityin Lucca was seized by the Castracani. InPadua, the Car
Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . redruffians prowled in every place where thewayfarer or tradesman was expected to pass. Italy. Though the effort was unsuccessful,the podesfas gained by the conflict, and thearistocracy triumphed everywhere. Pisa fellunder the rule of the family of Faggiola in1314. Two years afterwards the authorityin Lucca was seized by the Castracani. InPadua, the Carrara dynasty was establishedin 1318. The great family of the Viscontigained the ascendency in Alessandia, Tortona,and Cremona; while Mantua was seized bythe Gonzagas, and Ferrara by the Estes. Ra-venna was dominated by the family of thePolenta; Verona by the Scala, and Bologna 146 UMVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. by the Pepoli. Genoa did not accept thegovernmeut of a doge until 1339. In Romethe struggle between the aristocratic and dem-ocratic factious—the latter led by that Cola diRienzi, who has, with some propriety, beencalled the last of the Roman tribunes—con-tinued until 1347, and was finally decidedagainst the CESARE BORGIA. In the year last mentioned Italy was visitedwith a terrible famine, and this wiis followedhard after by a plague which has, perhaps,had no counterpart in history. It is recordedthat two-think of the Italian people were sweptaway by the awful visitation. Strange it isthat in the midst of these intestine feuds, andfrom the very horrors of starvation and pesti-lence, literature, science, and art sprang up and flourished. It was amid the ravages ofthe plague that Boccaccios fantastic spiritsketched the passionate and half-heartlessstories of the Decamerone. In the latter half of the fourteenth cen-tury that power which in Italy most nearlyresembled a kingdom was Naples. QueenJoanna, who held the Neapolitan scepter, wasdethroned and a
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