Florence's identity and fame rested upon its place as the showpiece of the grand dukes' patronage, taste, and power.
Indeed, the totally uncompromising politics of this duke, in particular, can hardly be explained in any other way.
And tomorrow the duke will be on his way !
Fears of a military mutiny were not limited to the duke's opponents.
Here other commentators made the allegations swirling about the duke positively lethal.
By 1857, the sixth duke could not on his own ensure the return of any candidate.
Such a move is sometimes called a duke move.
The following extract, written as a retrospective summary, makes the duke's affinities to the political language of neo-classicism most explicit.
