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NAPLES AND ITS ENVIRONS.
with which Machiavelli characterized all Italy,-—“the
corruption of the world.”
With such an acknowledgment-—from so high a source
as that last quoted — of the value of the legacy bequeathed
to us by some Neapolitans of the Renaissance, we conclude
this scanty resume. May the debt which we of this pro-
gressive century owe to men who, just emerging from
the darkness of the Middle Ages, had the wisdom to
perceive, to study, to declare, and even to die for truths
higher than those they had been taught, be clearly per-
ceived and justly estimated ’
NAPLES AND ITS ENVIRONS.
with which Machiavelli characterized all Italy,-—“the
corruption of the world.”
With such an acknowledgment-—from so high a source
as that last quoted — of the value of the legacy bequeathed
to us by some Neapolitans of the Renaissance, we conclude
this scanty resume. May the debt which we of this pro-
gressive century owe to men who, just emerging from
the darkness of the Middle Ages, had the wisdom to
perceive, to study, to declare, and even to die for truths
higher than those they had been taught, be clearly per-
ceived and justly estimated ’