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Title: Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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uisitely graceful form reminding oneof the loveliest products of I^ombard-Romanesque. Thebuilder of this Palazzo del Consiglio was probably Fra Giocondoof Verona, that mysterious Dominican friar who as antiquaryand humanist distinguished himself by publishing PlinysLetters and by making a collection of 2000 ancient inscriptions,which he gave to lyorenzo de Medici. Then, summoned byLouis XII to Paris, he built the Notre-Dame bridge over theSeine, and was the first to introduce the influence of the ItalianRenaissance into France. His Venetian work gained him thename of the second builder of Venice; he fortified Treviso; andat Rome he was one of the architects of the new St. Peters.* ^ One should perhaps add to the above specimens of non-Florentine Quattro-cento architecture certain remarkable palaces at Perrara (Schifanoja and thePal. de Diamanti, so called from the shape of its ¥ustica-h\oc\is), which areevidently imitated from what I have called the Florentine Etruscan style. 432 2£
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S.P. = Spanish dominions.The Kingdom of Naples and Sicily was called the Kingdom of theTwo Sicilies. PART III IL CINQUECENTO HISTORICAL OUTLINE A lyTHOUGH hitherto the history of Italy has lackedl\ many of the motives and ideals which interest and1 V inspire us as we observe the development of a realnation, it has been an instructive, if not an easy, task to trace—^without losing ourselves in constitutional quagmires—^thevarious, more or less unsuccessful, efforts of the Italian citiesto attain republican freedom. But except in the case ofVenice—^if indeed we should make the exception—almostevery spark of the sacred fire seems to have died out afterthe first third of the Cinquecento. Another era of barbarianinvasions, worse perhaps than that of the Dark Ages, beganin the fatal year of 1494 with the advent of Charles VIII, andby about 1530, after indescribable sufferings caused by theferocious struggles of France and Spain, the greater part ofItaly was enslaved to the mighty Sp

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