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Antiquities, Muratori explains the factions of the Guelphs and Ghibelines.]
[Footnote 108: Petrarch (tom. i. p. 222 - 230) has celebrated this victory according to the Colonna; but two contemporaries, a Florentine (Giovanni Villani, l. x. c. 220) and a Roman, (Ludovico Monaldeschi, p. 532 - 534,) are less favorable to their arms.]
[Footnote 109: The abbe de Sade (tom. i. Notes, p. 61 - 66) has applied the vith Canzone of Petrarch, Spirto Gentil, &c., to Stephen Colonna the younger:
Orsi, lupi, leoni, aquile e serpi Al una gran marmorea colonna Fanno noja sovente e a se danno]
Chapter LXX:
Final Settlement Of The Ecclesiastical State.
Part I.
Character And Coronation Of Petrarch. - Restoration Of The
Freedom And Government Of Rome By The Tribune Rienzi. - His Virtues And Vices, His Expulsion And Death. - Return Of The Popes From Avignon. - Great Schism Of The West. - Reunion Of The Latin Church. - Last Struggles Of Roman Liberty. - Statutes Of Rome. - Final Settlement Of The Ecclesiastical State.
In the apprehension of modern times, Petrarch ^1 is the
Italian songster of Laura and love. In the harmony of his Tuscan rhymes, Italy applauds, or rather adores, the father of her lyric poetry; and his verse, or at least his name, is repeated by the enthusiasm, or