The History of the Etrurian Peninsula

Volume III: The Bernoullian Re-Formation

FOREWORD

The Author’s ambition in these volumes has been to narrate anew the most glorious chapter of our History, while avoiding, to speak plainly, the excessively reverential tone of recent scholarship, which ignores, or more likely fails to see, the simple truth that our Re-Formation, like the Molè, was the work of many hands.1

An initial sketch of the main actor is necessary, but be assured, Reader, the pivotal events here touched upon will be redrawn in later chapters from perspectives that other Historians, to bestow that noble title with perhaps unwarranted liberality, neglect.