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... Italian free cities under feudal government . In vain Frederick allied himself to the Italian feudal party . The popular party , then called that of the Guelfs , were without a leader , but it suited the pope's policy to befriend it ...
... Italian free cities under feudal government . In vain Frederick allied himself to the Italian feudal party . The popular party , then called that of the Guelfs , were without a leader , but it suited the pope's policy to befriend it ...
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... Italian forms of literature were more and more copied in Spain , until , in 1526 , Juan Boscan , of Barcelona , distinctly imitated the Italian poetry , and used Italian measures . The strength of Italian TO A.D. 1542. ] RISE OF The ...
... Italian forms of literature were more and more copied in Spain , until , in 1526 , Juan Boscan , of Barcelona , distinctly imitated the Italian poetry , and used Italian measures . The strength of Italian TO A.D. 1542. ] RISE OF The ...
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... Italian courts , written to please the house of Medici , and showing how a prince , whose territory was newly acquired , not inherited , might master not only Florence , but all Italy . Machiavelli was the best Italian prose writer of ...
... Italian courts , written to please the house of Medici , and showing how a prince , whose territory was newly acquired , not inherited , might master not only Florence , but all Italy . Machiavelli was the best Italian prose writer of ...
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