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Power or Downfall .
Lewis is right in pointing up the frequently shoddy and
immature inspiration of much of this:
The Republican would call himself Brutus, the
littérateur would be Cicero, and so forth. They attempted
to bring to life the heroes of antiquity, and recall in their
own lives the events recorded in the codices, and it was
this immediate application of everything to life in Italian
Renaissance society (like the substitution of a cinema for
a history-book in a school) that made the Italian influence
so vivid in the rest of Europe. Renaissance Italy was very
exactly a kind of Los Angeles, where historical scenes
were tried out, antique buildings imitated and roughly run
up, and dramatic crimes reconstructed.