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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 26 — Chapter II · THE TYRANNY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

So Corio, fol. 286, and Poggio, Hist. Florent. iv. in Murat. xx. col 290.—Cagnola (loc. cit.) speaks of his designs on the imperial crown. See too the sonnet in Trucchi, Poesie Ital. ined., ii. p. 118:

“Stan le città lombarde con le chiave In man per darle a voi ... etc. Roma vi chiamo: Cesar mio novello Io sono ignuda, e l’anima pur vive: Or mi coprite col vostro mantello,” etc.

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