Niccolò Dei Lapi: Or, the Last Days of the Forentine Republic (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I visited the palace of the sheriff, where, in times more re mote, the priors, or presidents of the republic, occupied the first story, in the halls of which, they assembled in council; I saw those court-yard steps of marble covered with a roof as rough as though they had been the stairway of a peasant,' those massive pavements of the court, in the centre of which, These were times of greatness and of simplicity. Merchants who sup plied the King of England with twenty millions of gold florins, had scarcely a silver decanter upon their tables, and their wives accompanied by a maid servant, went every morning to market for the daily provisions.v.

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