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Dante, who spent some time in Lucca, and there loved the gentle Gentucca, whose name so fortunately chimed with that of the city, speaks of the Volto Santo in Inferno, xxi. 48, when in the eighth circle of Hell, over the lake of boiling pitch, the devils cry "... Qui non ha luogo il Santo Volto: Qui si nuota altrimenti che nel Serchio."
Segni, lib. i. p. 15, speaks clearly on the point, and says that the friar for this service to the city 'debbe esser messo tra buoni datori di leggi, e debbe essere amato e onorato da' Fiorentini non altrimenti che Numa dai Romani e Solone dagli Ateniesi e Licurgo da' Lacedemoni. The evil of the old system was that the Parlamento, which consisted of the citizens assembled in the Piazza, was exposed to intimidation, and had no proper initiative, while the Balia, or select body, to whom they then intrusted plenipotentiary authority, was always the faction for the moment uppermost.
"Ch'egli avria del candor che in te si vede Argomentato in lei non bianca fede." "bulls," no happy comparison certainly. "Vansi a ritrovar non altrimenti Che duo tori gelosi." "has his flames inside of it, and his tears without:" "Che dentro hai le mie fiamme, e fuori il pianto." Argument. PART I. Satan assembles the fiends in council to consider the best means of opposing the Christians.
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