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D. 1328 and 1343 especially in the struggles of A. D. 1342 and 1343 a great stride has been made towards democracy. As the chron- icler says : " The people, having won its victory over the grandees . . . Rose to great position and boldness and mastery, especially the middle class and the smaller artisans. " 1 On the whole, the government of the city fell to the executives of the twenty-one Arti. The old division into six districts having become antiquated, the city was now divided into four qua...rters, and the number of Priori increased from six to eight, two from each quarter, making with the Gon- falonier of Justice, now regarded as head of the government an executive of nine ; and it was arranged that three out of the nine should be taken from the lesser Arts. As a matter of fact as the chronicler goes on to say the im- mediate result was that they got more than this proportion, 1 G. Villani, lib. Xu. Ch. Xxii.
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especially as the prohibition against two members of the same family being Prior within six months pressed harder on old families, whose ties of kin were known to remote degrees, than on new people who kept no account of cousin- ship.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
D. 1328 and 1343 especially in the struggles of A. D. 1342 and 1343 a great stride has been made towards democracy. As the chron- icler says : " The people, having won its victory over the grandees . . . Rose to great position and boldness and mastery, especially the middle class and the smaller artisans. " 1 On the whole, the government of the city fell to the executives of the twenty-one Arti. The old division into six districts having become antiquated, the city was now divided into four qua...rters, and the number of Priori increased from six to eight, two from each quarter, making with the Gon- falonier of Justice, now regarded as head of the government an executive of nine ; and it was arranged that three out of the nine should be taken from the lesser Arts. As a matter of fact as the chronicler goes on to say the im- mediate result was that they got more than this proportion, 1 G. Villani, lib. Xu. Ch. Xxii.
300 DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN POLITY LECT.
especially as the prohibition against two members of the same family being Prior within six months pressed harder on old families, whose ties of kin were known to remote degrees, than on new people who kept no account of cousin- ship.
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