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Asimov’s Guide To Shakespear. Volume 1For centuries Siena and Florence were rivals, and down nearly to Boccaccio's time, the fight remained fairly equal. Siena, however, was already declining when the Decameron was written and it came more and more under the Florentine shadow. In 1557 Florence finally gained political control of Siena and the latter's history as an independent city-state came to an end. … our cousin Austria The King goes on to say: We here receive it A certainty, vouched from our cousin Austria, With caution, that the Florentine will move us For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend Prejudicates the business, and would seem To have us make denial. —Act II, scene i, lines 4-9 Again there is no use in searching history for any specific event that would mirror this. In the sixteenth century there was a great rivalry between Francis I of France and the Emperor Charles V (see page II-747), the core of whose dominions within the Empire was Austria. Francis and Charles fought over Italy all through their reigns, with Charles having the better of it most of the time ...» |
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