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If Venice was jealous and hostile in the north, Florence was scarcely less so in mid-Italy though perhaps with rather more justification, for Cesare's growing power and boundless ambition kept the latter Republic in perpetual fear of being absorbed into his dominions into that kingdom which it was his ultimate aim to found.
South of these, in mid-Italy, you have Romagna, the valley of the Tiber. In that valley, decayed Rome, with her lust of empire inextinguishable; no inheritance of imaginative art, nor power of it; dragging her own ruins hourly into more fantastic ruin, and defiling her faith hourly with more fantastic guilt.
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