Florentine Villas Classic Reprint Janet Ross by Janet Ross 9781397339133, 1397339136 instant download after payment.

Excerpt from Florentine Villas In early times the great Florentine families lived in their strong castles like robber chieftians, waging incessant war on each other and on the adjacent villages and towns, and when later they went to dwell in the walled city they built their palaces like strongholds. High towers and thick walls defended Guelf against Ghibelline, and as one party or the other obtained supremacy the beaten rivals were driven to seek refuge in their hill-castles. The nobles, writes Macchiavelli, were divided against each other and the people against the nobles. And from these divisions resulted so many deaths, so many banishments, so many destructions of families, as never befell in any other city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.