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XXVII. CHARACTER OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI.

THE days of Dante, of Boccacio, and of Petrarca, were indeed past'; but under the auspices of the house of Medici, and particularly through the ardour3 and example of Lorenzo, the empire of science and true taste was again restored.

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