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The Italiancommunes were the parents of glorious republics.
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Frederic died in 1250; and from this year we may date both the disruption of the Empire and the decadence of the free Italiancommune.
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The Italiancommunes present, in their sharp vicissitudes of fortune, a spectacle not less dramatic and infinitely more momentous for the general history of Europe.