Florence
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Hyett, Francis Adams) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Florence: Her History and Art to the Fall of the Republic There are at present three histories of Florence written in English, very dissimilar, but all of considerable merit. Why then, it will naturally be asked, write a fourth? The answer is twofold. In the first place these three works are for the general reader, unless he wants to make of Florentine history a special study, too lengthy. The scholarly works of Professor Villari, comprising The Two First Centuries of Florentine History, The Life and Times of Savonarola, and The Life and Times of Machiavelli, were first given to the public in eight large volumes. Their number, it is true, by dint of smaller type and thinner paper, has since been reduced, but the text has not been abridged. The student, if he has time, cannot do better than digest them, for they are the product of years of learning and research, and they summarise, with much literary skill, a knowledge which probably no other living individual possesses. Napier´s Florentine History (1846-7) covers a longer period, and runs into six closely printed volumes. It is a mine of information, but it is written in a singularly unattractive style, and it has no index. Trollope´s History of the Commonwealth of Florence (1865), on the other hand, will be found pleasant reading enough, especially by those to whom a lightness of treatment, which sometimes verges on flippancy, is not an offence; but it also is lengthy, as it occupies four large volumes. In the second place all of these works have for the general public a graver defect. 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.
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