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Updated: June 8, 2025
It is the men who propound agitating ideas and who revolutionize the character of nations, that are persecuted. Artists create no revolutions, not even of thought. Savonarola kindled a greater fire in Florence than all the artists whom the Medici ever patronized.
It was in these circumstances that Massino d'Azeglio came to me one morning, in the garden of our house in the Via del Giglio the same in which the poet Milton lodged when he was in Florence to which we had by that time moved, and told me that he wanted me to do something for him.
Family affairs recalled Michael Angelo to Florence in the spring of 1501. He returned full of honours gained in Rome, and took up his position as the first sculptor of the day.
He will accompany us to the churches and to the museums, and he will be a good guide. He understands beautiful things, because he loves them. And he has an exquisite talent as a sculptor. His figures in medallions are admired more in England than in France. Oh, I am so glad Monsieur Jacques Dechartre and you are to meet at Florence, darling!"
For though all over Italy traces of the miracle are apparent, Florence was its very home and still can point to the greatest number of its achievements. How it came about that between the years 1300 and 1500 Italian soil and chiefly Tuscan soil threw up such masters, not only with the will and spirit to do what they did but with the power too, no one will ever be able to explain. But there it is.
There was nothing in Italy to withstand his onslaught; he swept through the land in triumph; Charles believed himself to be a great conqueror giving law to admiring subject-lands; he entered Pisa, Florence, Rome itself. Wherever he went his heedless ignorance, and the gross misconduct of his followers, left behind implacable hostility, and turned all friendship into bitterness.
This unfortunate circumstance made the people so indignant against the great that the Signory refused to perform the promise made to the exiles, and the latter, anticipating the fact, determined to be beforehand, and were at the gates of Florence to gain admittance into the city before the rest of the forces; but their design did not take effect, for their purpose being foreseen, they were repulsed by those who had remained at home.
As I had read her story in the papers, I simply asked her to change her name. We had a new staff at the hospital, and it was therefore a safe refuge for her." "But, as you have read the papers, you must be aware of the accusations against her?" "Those accusations have no weight, Monsieur le Préfet, with any one who knows Florence.
"Yet if oh, how could I bear " Romola had involuntarily begun to say something which she sought to banish from her mind again. "Make your marriage-sorrows an offering too, my daughter: an offering to the great work by which sin and sorrow are being made to cease. The end is sure, and is already beginning. Here in Florence it is beginning, and the eyes of faith behold it.
She wrote long, impulsive letters to Janet, pouring out a flood of description of all the places which they visited, opening her heart of its perfect happiness. "You said he was hard once," she wrote from Florence. "You said you knew he was hard. He's never said a hard thing to me the whole time we've been away. He may be hard to other people.
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