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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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cciones fetterswere still upon him. He was of the ancientGhibelline family of the Antelminelli, whohad prospered to great wealth in England,where they spent a long exile, and whereCastruccio learned the art of war. After hisdeath, one of his sons sold his dominion toanother for twenty-two thousand florins, fromw^hom his German garrison took it and soldit for sixty thousand to Gherardo Spinola \he, in turn, disposed of it to the Rossi, at aclear loss of thirty-eight thousand florins. TheLucchese suffered six years under the Scali- TUSCAN CITIES. 901 geri, who sold them again — the market price Cosmo I. that they were guiltless of complic-this time is not quoted — to the Florentines, ity. The imperial commissioner came fromwhom the Pisans drove out. These held her Milan to preside at his trial, and he was sen-in a servitude so cruel that the Lucchese tenced to suffer death for treason to the em-called it their Babylonian captivity; and when pire. He was taken to Milan and beheaded ;
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A STAIRWAY, LUCCA. it was ended after twenty years, through theintervention of the Emperor Charles IV., in1369, they were obliged to pay the Germana hundred thousand florins for their liberty,which had been sold so many times for farless money. An ancient Lucchese family, the Guanigi,whose Gothic palaces are still the most beau-tiful in the city, now rose to power, and heldit till 1430; and then the city finally estab-lished the republican government, which inits democratic and oligarchic form continuedtill 1799. The noblest event of this long period wasthe magnanimous attempt of the gonfaloniere,Francesco Burlamacchi, who in 1546 dreamedof driving the Medici from power and rees-tablishing the republic throughout Tuscany.Burlamacchi was of an old patrician family,but the love of freedom had been instilled inhim by his uncle, Filippo Burlamacchi, thatFra Pacifico who wrote the first life of Savo-narola and was one of his most fervent disci-ples. The gonfalonieres plot was discovered,an

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