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There was no har- monious policy in the great peninsula, thus disin- tegrated. Each little state was, as regardeed the Hebrews, sometimes oppressive, sometimes favorable; when in any city or district the skies grew dark for them, the Jews could often find more easily in the principalities than in the great kingdoms a convenient refuge. In the commercial states no prejudice, of course, was felt toward the Israelites from the fact that they were traders and money-lenders. What else were Venetian,... Florentine, Lombard, and Cahorsin ?* They were the Jew's rivals, not his contemners, and there is good reason for thinking that these Christian usurers were harsher and more extortionate than the sons of Jacob, whose calling they had appropriated. Tiie attitude of the mercantile cities toward the Hebrews was generally that of surly tolerance, that brought, however, . No exemption from insult, or indeed, bodily ill-treatment, if caprice -turned that way. In Rome, the fate of the Jews hung upon the per- sonal character of the Popes, who sometimes bravel)' * Moncy-leiulers who probably cnme from Piedmont.
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