. The builders of Florence . nature, and, looking on the new habit and what it covered,remembers how the times had changed since the early centuriesof Christianity. Then, religion sought protection, now it has itselfbecome a shield; once the Church stood before the world of Romeas a simple Burial Club, now secular industry seeks safety byadopting the forms and assuming the habit of Religion. Sanc-tioned by the Pope in 1200, the new Order of the Umiliati hadalready planted its industry in many of the Lombard towns. Alessandria in particular, the city built in 1179 on the Panaro,and so well that

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. The builders of Florence . nature, and, looking on the new habit and what it covered,remembers how the times had changed since the early centuriesof Christianity. Then, religion sought protection, now it has itselfbecome a shield; once the Church stood before the world of Romeas a simple Burial Club, now secular industry seeks safety byadopting the forms and assuming the habit of Religion. Sanc-tioned by the Pope in 1200, the new Order of the Umiliati hadalready planted its industry in many of the Lombard towns. Alessandria in particular, the city built in 1179 on the Panaro,and so well that it successfully resisted for six months the forces ofBarbarossa ; had, in its suburb of Bugnola, made room for theConvent of San Michele as a flourishing house of the Umiliati, thuscuriously fulfilling its proud and gracious motto: Deprimitelatos, levat Alexandria stratos. In 1239, when Amico was theSuperior here, this Convent of San Michele sent a colony south-ward across the Apennines to Florence, where the Bishop Ardingo. mUtJM fW

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