Writing in 1466, in his biography of Bartolommeo Valori, an eminent
Florentine statesman of the early fifteenth century, Luca della Robbia was
moved to remark of his native city that ‘come ch'ella sempre fiorisse, ciò
fu massimamente dall'anno 1390 fino all'anno 1433,’ and that this was less
‘per lo favore di buona fortuna, come per consiglio de’ buoni cittadini
allora preposti al reggimento; la cui virtù si scoperse oltre a modo
maravigliosa, e tale che essi non dovriano dirsi inferiori a quei più savi
Romani così celebrati dall'antichità’; certainly anyone considering their
deeds and achievements ‘gli conterà agevolmente fra i primi uomini del
mondo’.
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