European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                , iisji5iass r of \ -.  ill  ass Pakip arg Era we a mar the City of Flowers Woi once the Moit Radont Center of Ort and in Eul Birthplace of the Renaissance for centuries the Ponte Vecchio has been lined Wilh the shops of it 4ff-- i. A of Townie the butt place but tha of of Endrin the oust Radiant Center in 4h it euro word Teo Nanjo Juja Vind on and on. To the holy empty or lot Clotil the , had be come the Standard Gold piece of Europe. In the 14tl Century Hundred years be fore the How of Medici was founded. Florence a wet tort fied City of 100,000 with Mas Riv gothic palaces Aid Public. Buildings 11$ churches 39 religious Bouse Sand 200 doth . Florentine Bankers and merchants were to be found in All the capitals of Europe. Thousand of these Prosper a entitled to Bear arms t_4uwijbt was no empty Polvi land Whei families streets cities j i it Down the Middle _ bloody feuding be . Who supported the a under the German is Vulpis who threw inthe papal states Titian in town Giovanni 049who endowed i descendant with the Power in la shape of  and banking Ltd a Florence Tor 3cw Centuria Flutot to Fieodor. Giovanni s son Colmo the elder 338&-1464known As Theof the fatherland Pater Tat rate the stars and stripes death mask of Lorentze the magnificent med i poet Art Patron and tyrant. Assumed Power As protector of the demo cratic commercial Republic the first mod Ern state in the world. He insured i tenure by exiling big re vats a a Patron of the arts Cosimo was second Only to his  the magnificent a494492k an italian has tort a has remarked. If Florence was to have a tyrant she could never have  better or More pleasant one. Lorenzo scandalous behaviour was forgotten in 4ftprosperity his administration showered on businessman and peasant alike. Not Only did he Enbe Itati the City with great put Bike and private buildings and Oil the with works of ref he himself was a poet win contrib fixed Nieh to the Brilliant court starch Tecu paid Tetra sculptors Stu Udai. Philosophers and pot that transformed Florence into the Athens of the modern world which in turn changed the face and mind of Italy and the rest of Europe it out defending their despotism on cannot Overlook use vision and magnanimity of Many of the Medici their Gnu Feur shines through to the end. Even after iwrh&4 drained the Treasury and the Pilosio a la Sig unknown Teton the cont plot the aug Tran conried Toht he agon Anna Turt nobler be Olof the a what lie  and wid Tot Tao old to by the Quatt tons rep Ted bar it Treth