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The Story of Civilization (Part 5)

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The Renaissance

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1953

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In that same year 1302 in which the aristocratic party of the neri (Blacks), having seized the government of Florence by force, exiled Dante and other middle-class bianchi (Whites), the triumphant oligarchy indicted a White lawyer, Ser (i.d., Messer or Master) Petracco on the charge of having falsified a legal document.

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