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"The majority of Italians who lived in the 13th and 14th centuries never heard the word 'Italy'. It was a country in which only the literate lived. Consciousness of its meaning arose from three sources: the classics, xenophobia, and exile."
— May 13, 2013 04:04AM
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"Gluttony as a work of art was a demonstration of the power of the governing class and a symbol too of the supreme importance of food in the thought of governments."
— May 15, 2013 10:57AM
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"it was not the those earnest, prudent virtues, that homely everyday wisdom, which Weber detected in 'the bourgeosis ethic' which characterised Italian society in the first age of commercial capitalism. A society with such values would have created nothing. Rather it was those ideals of impetuous courage combined with...contempt for wealth as such, which gave the Italian nobility its dynamic."
— May 14, 2013 01:16AM
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May 13, 2013 04:15AM
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