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Florence, where the Italian Renaissance began, was an independent republic. It was also a banking and commercial capital and, after London and Constantinople, the third-largest city in Europe. Wealthy Florentines flaunted their money and power by becoming patrons, or supporters, of artists and intellectuals
I think the answer is Romans.
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He was prepared to try and blow it up because he romanticized war and had a perception of nobility in it. He believed in confederate ideals and was prepared to sacrifice himself for them, and it's no wonder that his luck turned on him because war is not a pretty thing and he got tricked by the enemy.