Profoundly Modern?

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Sep 11, 202624:33Society & Culture

What happened to the Guelphs and Ghibellines after Dante's generation? The names survived for centuries, but their original meaning slowly gave way to family rivalries, oligarchic struggles, territorial states, foreign a...

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