Sunday, October 08, 2023
Nobles
Trevor Dean and Daniel Waley, The Italian City-Republics, 5th ed. (London: Routledge, 2023), p. 126:
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Again modern readers must use their historical imagination to think away modern politeness and to summon up a world in which strength and pride expressed themselves directly and brutally. They must think of men like the sixteenth-century nobles at Belluno who used to shout 'Take your hat off, dastard!' and to show their scorn for the multitude by writing 'Labouring plebs' on the walls.
