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The Political Thought of the Florentine Chancellors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Robert Black
Robert Black
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School of History, University of Leeds
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The Historical Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 1986 , pp. 991 - 1003
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