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Excerpt from The Brides of Florence: A Play, in Five Acts; Illustrative of the Manners of the Middle Ages: With Historical Notes, and Minor Poems The Play of the Brides of Florence is an effort at the renovation of the ancient drama. How far I may have succeeded, will remain to be proved; but, however success may be denied to my exertions, a heartfelt interest will never be refused to me by the most inveterate critic. Sismondi instances a sufficiently curious phenomenon in the paralyzed state of the Italians, who, at one period, were so enraptured with enthusiastic admiration for the ancients, as to be completely incapacitated for the production of any performance possessing the slight characteristic of merit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.