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Excerpt from From the Earliest Era; Comprising an Account of the Revival of Letters, Sciences, and Arts, Vol. 1 of 4: Interspersed With Essays on Important Literacy and Historical Subjects; Including Memoirs of the Family of the Medici
Florence being freely constituted, by that tendency which a government, consisting Of many, has to fall into the despotism of one person alone, saw herself precipitated by degrees, in the midst of factions, into the power of one of those imperial vice roys, who were for many years the scourge of Italy, and who dexterously making himself master of power, and, availing him self Of the discords and internal dissensions which prevailed among the citizens, became, for a short time, tyrant over them. The common danger, for a moment put to silence all con siderations of private interest; the Duke Of Athens was ex pelled his ministers were barbarously put to death, and the free government again established. This period, which has a be ginning, an interregnum, and an end, must naturally.have Offered to the historian, a complete part, and be included it ia' his third book.
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