Chapter 2301 infinity (Part 2)

I once had such a public class at the University of Padua, which was about the definition, characterization and redefinition of gods and heroes in ancient Greek and Roman religions.

Many little boys dream of being a hero, but what does a hero look like?

In Machiavelli's account, Michele de Lando was a carder who was barefoot and wearing almost nothing when the common people began to riot throughout the city and everything was set on fire.

The clothes, on that hot summer night, he sweated a lot, as if they were coated with olive oil.

He climbed the stairs step by step and entered the reception room of the ruling corps. By this time, the ruling corps had already gone home. The people who were following him suddenly stopped and stood at the bottom of the stairs. Michele looked back.

the masses.

"Look!" Michele said to everyone, "This city-state is already yours. This city-state is already in your hands. What do you think we should do?"

The masses said, "We are willing to elect you as our standard-bearer and monarch of justice."

So Michele accepted the appointment, and he became the standard-bearer of justice like Salvestro de' Medici. The difference was that Salvestro de' Medici was elected amidst festive singing, while Michele

Gloria was elected when everyone felt that there was no hope of saving the city-state, and even the last remaining members of the ruling group had withdrawn.

At this time, Florence still belonged to the era of the Ricci family. Just like the Borgias, the mortal enemies of the Medici family, the Ricci family also had a feud with the Albizzi family. The Medici family was not the protagonist at this time, and was the ruling party.

One can threaten Salvestro into taking his seat.

At this time, the Medici family had not yet become the bankers of the Pope. Machiavelli believed that the Pope's envoys had cut off the food supply to Florence and launched an attack on Florence during the spring plowing. Pope Gregory XI

In order to protect the papal territory from being invaded by the Visconti family, despite the opposition of some French cardinals, he insisted on moving the Holy See back to Rome.

The Visconti family rose in Milan in the 11th century. In the 15th century, the family's power reached its peak, becoming the Duke of Milan and the Count of Pavia, controlling most of northern Italy. It was not until 1450 that it was captured by Francesco Sforza.

With the title of Duke, the rule of the Visconti family came to an end.

During the expansion of the Visconti family, the territory of the Papal States was continuously reduced. The Black Death in the 14th century killed nearly half of the population in many cities, with the exception of Milan. At that time, the Milanese discovered that there were patients and immediately

The doors and windows of that house were sealed. Later, Venice also used a similar quarantine method, allowing arriving sailors to stay on an island for a period of time before entering the city.

The Visconti family had controlled Milan for many years, but Milan was not yet a principality at that time. It was not until 1395 that Giovanni Galizzo Visconti bought the title of Duke of Milan from Wenceslav of Bohemia.

The principality was established.

At that time, Bohemia belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and was a country ruled by emperors. In 1378, not only Gregory XI died, but also Galeazzo II, the ruler of Milan, and his son Giovan

Ni Gallizzo Visconti inherited the rule of Milan, but he made Pavia his capital, which was further south than Milan and closer to Florence. Later, Milan and Florence did have many wars.

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Some people say that Giovanni Galizzo's uncle Bernabo was a villain. He governed the other half of the Visconti family's land. Not only did he pay heavy taxes, but he also liked hunting and forced farmers to raise 3,000 hunting dogs for him.

He also allowed dogs to bite people, and the Vatican had repeatedly condemned him.

The emblem of the Visconti family is a snake, which is derived from their original fiefdom anhiera. The Latin anguis means snake. This family is good at conspiracy and subversion, mostly maintaining their power through negotiation, conspiracy and assassination. Later, Giovan

Ni Galizzo killed his uncle by assassination, and then inherited the other half of the family's territory. However, the people in this family were not good at leading troops in war, so they needed a large number of mercenaries.

There was a schism between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in 1054, and Gregory XI hoped to reunite the two.

However, after the death of Gregory XI in 1378, disagreements arose in the College of Cardinals. The citizens of Rome were determined to keep the Holy See in Rome. Under the threat of mass riots, the College of Cardinals elected an Italian Pope, Urban VI.

After taking the throne, he tried to eliminate France's influence on the Holy See, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the French cardinals. They planned to re-elect a French bishop and returned to Avignon to declare that Urban VI was elected under coercion and his position was invalid.

In addition, Cardinal Clement VII of Geneva was elected as the new pope.

This was during the Hundred Years' War between England and France. The kings of various countries recognized the Pope of Rome and the Pope of Avignon respectively based on their political attitudes and relationships. While churches in various places were verbally criticizing each other and excommunicating each other, they also acted in accordance with the attitude of the monarch. Until

In 1409, at the initiative of King Charles VI of France and the University of Paris, the two Colleges of Cardinals held a meeting in Pisa and deposed Gregory XII of Rome and Benedict XIII of Avignon at the same time.

Elected Alexander V as the new pope.

However, Benedict XIII and Gregory XII were supported by some kings respectively, and both refused to abdicate, thus creating a situation of three popes.

The history written by the church is different from secular writers such as Machiavelli. It often contains astronomical visions or other signs, such as meteors appearing in the sky or blood spurting out of the pool. 1378 11

A great comet appeared in the moon, but the turmoil in Florence had ended at that time, and Michele, the wool carder, did not become the monarch of Florence as he thought.

And those common people who originally supported Michele learned that in the city-state he reorganized, they gave too much preferential treatment to the upper-level civilians, and their own share was too small, so they took up arms again and shouted resolutely.

The ruling group was asked to go downstairs immediately to consider new measures. Michele did not dare to provoke them and persuaded them to put down their weapons before agreeing to make certain concessions to them. After hearing this answer, the crowd became furious and immediately withdrew to Santa Maria.

With the eight commissioners of the Novella church, two governments emerged in the city-state. They listed their demands and snatched the position and salary of the standard bearer of justice from Salvestro and Michele.

He came over and sent two more people to the ruling group to insist on approval. If the approval was not approved, they would threaten to use force to achieve it.

Michele could no longer tolerate it. He drew his sword and seriously wounded the messenger and threw him into prison. When the news came out, the people were in an uproar. Then Michele led the citizens. They had calmed down and rushed to Santa Maria Nove.

Pull the "enemy".

In the end, the citizens led by Michele won, the riots subsided, and then a new ruling group was elected. The election method was determined by drawing lots. Two people in the new ruling group were from common people, but Salvestro Medici

The position of the standard bearer of justice was not given to Michele. The honorary position of the new government was divided into two parts, with high-level and low-level guilds each occupying half, and candidates from both sides took turns to serve as the standard bearer of justice.

In this way, peace was temporarily restored within the city-state, but threats from outside the city-state came again.

Conspiracies are often like this. Too few people are not enough to succeed, and too many people are difficult to keep secrets. Salvestro de' Medici noticed something was wrong because he received warning in advance. Medici was a civilian at the time.

An aristocrat, he could not tolerate the oppression of common people by powerful people, and gained the sympathy and support of most of the middle class and the upper classes of the common people.

If you look at it from different angles, you can see different vases, but a vase is just a vase and will not change into something else. You cannot point at a deer and insist that others say it is a horse.

Georgiana didn't know what Bonaparte was up to. Even though he was 80 years old, Roquerolle was still nimble in his legs and feet, and he didn't seem to need any preferential treatment from others. Moreover, he still had to lead her to climb the bell tower.

She planned to wait a little longer, maybe Bonaparte would come later. No matter how energetic the old priest was, he couldn't climb the bell tower twice in full robes. It would be very tiring to climb up and down like this.
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