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  • [2] Guicciardini, in his _Ricordt_, No. i., refers the incredible obstinacy of the Florentines at this period in hoping against all hope and reason to Savonarola: 'questa ostinazione ha causata in gran parte a fede di non potere perire, secondo le predicazioni di Fra Jeronirno da Ferrara.'

    Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

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