Status Updates From Purgatorio

The address to Florence hits a little too close to home these days: "Athens and Sparta, which made the ancient laws and had such civil order, gave only hints of the good life compared to you, who make such fine provisions that the threads you've spun but in October do not survive to mid-November. How many times within your memory have you changed laws, coinage, offices, as well as customs, and renewed your members?"