. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. CHAPTER V. THF S7RAITS OF THE REPUBLIC o-/.\l) THE DISASTRI V WAR. THE DEATH OF PIERO:. -Tilt- THREATS OF THE , WHOSi V 77/. MPEROR MqAXIMILIqAN TO //■:.). THE NEW BRIEF ISSI ED BY THE Pani-: &ÌGAINSTSAVi NAROLA • fND THE LATTERS REPLY. THE RE-PUBLIC IS BESIEGED IN LEGHORN BY JillTHE EMPER > OF THE LEAGUE. SAVONAROLA RETURNS TO JIII-: PULPIT, AND THE FLORENTINEStRE AfIRACULOUSL Y RI D I-ROM EVERY DANGER. (149Ó.). >J7^Vs) HE turbulent vicissitudes of the past/)$ years had paralyzed the commerce and industry of Florence ; the exorbitantsums
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. CHAPTER V. THF S7RAITS OF THE REPUBLIC o-/.\l) THE DISASTRI V WAR. THE DEATH OF PIERO:. -Tilt- THREATS OF THE , WHOSi V 77/. MPEROR MqAXIMILIqAN TO //■:.). THE NEW BRIEF ISSI ED BY THE Pani-: &ÌGAINSTSAVi NAROLA • fND THE LATTERS REPLY. THE RE-PUBLIC IS BESIEGED IN LEGHORN BY JillTHE EMPER > OF THE LEAGUE. SAVONAROLA RETURNS TO JIII-: PULPIT, AND THE FLORENTINEStRE AfIRACULOUSL Y RI D I-ROM EVERY DANGER. (149Ó.). >J7^Vs) HE turbulent vicissitudes of the past/)$ years had paralyzed the commerce and industry of Florence ; the exorbitantsums paid to the French king andspent on the war had been a continualstrain on its resources, and the publiccredit was lowered to such an extent that a bond of 100florins on the Communal Bank was only worth ten florinsin the For the last two years the Signory hadsummoned a meeting of the council almost every month,to demand frcsh supplies and impose fresh taxes ;2 but by * A luogo of the Communal Bank corresponded, as we have beforeexplained, with what would now be called a share in the funds. 2 Although by the law of 1495 the citizens were only bound to pay one-tenth {Decima) of their yearly income, the books of the Decrees (in theFlorence Archives) are full of successive new tithes {Decime) levied bythe Signory and the councils. WAR, PESTILENCE AND FAMINE. 455 this time both public and private funds were equallyexhausted. To these troubles famine was
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