“This is not a story of the kind of resistance that groundswells and overthrows the tyrants. The Medici stayed in power until the family died out, they were never overthrown. But they were kept in check. A line the conqueror doesn’t dare cross is a powerful line, that protects much behind it.… Partial victory is powerful.”
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