第8章 THE STATE AS A WORK OF ART(8)(2 / 3)

istory we seem able to trace its endeavors after the crown.The foundation of its fortune lay in the remarkable fruitfulness of the family; Francesco's father, Jacopo, himself a celebrated man, had twenty brothers and sisters, all brought up roughly at Cotignola, near Faenza, amid the perils of one of the endless Romagnole 'vendette'