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Excerpt from The Life of Petrarch: Collected From Memoires Pour Le Vie De Petrarch
In this age many discoveries were made, and useful arts established. The manners and customs of all Eu rope from this time began to wear a di¿'erent aspect; and from contests and disorders arose the inestimable bles sing of liberty, to the kind in¿uence of which many states owe their present ¿ourishing situation, whose subjects were formerly slaves. Italy, the country which gave birth to Petrarch, was at this time rich and power ful, and superior to all others in the beauties of nature and the improvements of art: and it was just rising out of the darkness of superstition: for the homage paid to the church in the thirteenth century was carried to so high a pitch, that when cardinals and prelates appeared, persons of the first rank went before them to keep of the crowd.
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