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Visconti, and whom all believed dead, was instead
honorably liberated because he had the skill to convince
that gloomy and cruel tyrant that it would better serve
his turn to have the Aragonese at Naples than the
followers of Anjou. . . . In a revolution at Prato, got up by
Bernardo Nardi, this leader . . . had already thrown the
halter round the neck of the Florentine Podestà when the
latter’s fine reasoning persuaded him to spare his life. . .”
(pp. 86­7)
Such was also the world which Huizinga portrays in The
Waning of the Middle Ages . It was medievalism plus a visual
slickness and pomp and opulence made possible by the new
wealth and applied knowledge of the middle class. As we move
into the Renaissance it is needful to understand that the new
age of applied knowledge is an age of translation not only of