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Excerpt from The Tuscan Republics (Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Lucca) With Genoa As regards Florence alone, and from one point of View, Florence must always be the most interesting of the Italian Republics, articles of extreme interest on the beginnings of the commune have been con tributed to the Nuova Antologia, by Professor Pasquale Villari, and form, it may be hoped, the prelude to a larger work. 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.