Identifier: mediaevalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediaeval and modern history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, — that is, the routes by way of the Euphrates and theRed Sea. 193. Florence. — Florence, the most illustrious and fortunateof Italian republics, although from her inland location upon theArno shut out from engaging in those naval enterprises that con-ferred wealth and importance upon the coast cities of Venice,Genoa, and Pisa, became, notwithstanding, through the skill,industry, enterprise, and genius of her citizens, the great manu-facturing, financial, literary, and art center of the later mediae-val centuries. The list of her illustrious citizens, of her poets,statesmen, historians, architects, sculptors, and painters is moreextended than that of any other city of mediaeval times; andindeed, as respects the number of her great men, Florence is per-haps unrivaled by any city of the ancient or modern world saveAthens. In her long roll of fame we find the names of Dante,Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavefli, Michael Angelo, Leonardo daVinci, Galileo, Amerigo Vespucci, and the Medici.
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