Travel in the history

Richard was a professor in a famous university he, through the interest, brought the students to live the history, he told about the human condition and the true history, that was composed both from nobles men and above all from poor, he has always the episode beauty or hell or alone nice that he introduced in his lessons to relax the attention. The students were very happy for his lessons and during a lesson one Henry closed the eyes just a moment and when he opened it he was in other place and other city, he wore a cloth very strange, that seems Renaiisance, and he around heard a strange language, that he didn’t understood; he turned around and wanted asked something, this is what is this city, and why there is a procession, and because the citizens were clothed so, and other. He stopped a man and asked: “Excuse me but where are?”, and the man: “Are you Henry?” and he answered: “Yes! I am, but I want know where are we ?”, and the man: “In Bologna, Italian city and the lord that will arrives is pope Leon 10^th Medici’s family, and he receives the king of France Francis 1th of Valois.” And Henry: “But I know that Leon pope is Florentine, and why the Bologna city and no Florence?”, and the man: “because in meeting of cardinal in Viterbo, other city of Italian center, the cardinals has thought that the Florentine families against Medici could organize a plot against the pope and his family, above all Pier Soderini, that was the chief of faction against Medici, he was in the guilt of silk and the Medici family contrasted his merchants, for this he have to be come on from Florence”, and Henry: “ Why a plot? De Medici family has the power in Florence and it is absolute”, and the man laughed and: “Classic error, if your professor hear it he would beat you before that he come on”, and Henry: “I have misunderstood”, and the man: “Certainly, you have understand nothing; it is sufficient that you look the history through the logic, and everything become easy”, and Henry: “How?”, and the man: “Florence was a republic city state, and in republic nobody has the absolute power, in fact then there is the Counsel of five hundred, and the decisions belong alone to this counsel”, and Henry: “And the Medici family?”, and the man: “It was the important family but alone a family, that was gone back from exile, and in fact the Church voted in Conclave the cardinal Giovanni de Medici because his family was turned to power in Florence six months before of his election”, and Henry: “Why elected a member of this family when they has been banished from Florence?”, and the man smiled and gazed Henry: “Who accompanied the Medici family to Florence and to the power?”, and Henry: “No idea”, and the man: “The Spanish soldiers, and the Spain was the better and faithful ally to the Church”, and Henry: “Excuse me but I don’t understand, so what the Spain and the power of Medici, it isn’t connection”, and the man: “The connection is in the politic”, and Henry: “Where is the tie because I don’t find it”, and the man: “After the come on of Medici’s family, Florence was a republic state, independent, and the Church hasn’t a reference that could bewitch through election of cardinal of family or other, because the Florence was a republic independent that could tie its power to every enemy of Church, hence after the gone back of Medici to Florence was necessary that the city turned friend of Church, this is the pope Leon 10^th,, it is clear to you?”, and Henry: “Yes, but the Spain?”, and the man: “The Spain was necessary to stressed that Florence was turned to Church, and the Medici family becomes the reference of Church and Spain in Italy, more you given to somebody major is going to be faithful, and the Medici has received the Florence, although the power isn’t absolute, but they are now the reference, and the visit in Bologna stead than Florence, because the enemies of Medici are again present, whereby the power isn’t absolute”, and Henry: “And after?”, and the man: “After return to power Leon 10^th, given the power to his nephew, Lorenzo, and he indicated in a Instruction the formation of an oligarchy govern, all friend of Medici”, and Henry: “It is attests that the power was absolute, hence I was right”, and the man smiled: “Use the logic, why a oligarchic govern?”, and Henry: “Because it is absolute govern?”, and man: “No, because the Medici family didn’t want the enemies, and it was present in Florence, for this the city for the visit was Bologna and no Florence, therefore was necessary that the enemies of Medici has had the occasion to a plot, and Francis 1th king of France was become the enemy of Medici, above all after the gone back to Florence thank to Spain; the enemies of Medici could became ally to Francis 1th; but he have to come on the Medici family, and both the Spain and the Church would have elected a pope that was useless, it is alone politic”. Henry asked also around the ceremony: “Why this solemnity for a visit?”, and the man: “This is also is politic and it is the historical politic”, and Henry: “Historical? Why?”, and the man: “Because during ancient Rome the cortege begun from triumphal door in Martial camp, it was the border that must be passed to made the in the city”, and Henry seen much persons that gone toward the pope, and he asked: “Why those persons are going to the pope?”, and the man: “Because a citizen representative must meet the pope, in ancient Rome he was the winning general that after gone up on the quadriga, and he gone toward the Roman forum and toward the Jupiter temple during the 2th century before Christ, and the Roman certainly didn’t saved on the celebrations, and in fact they built triumphal arcs and golden sculptures, and Henry: “Why it?”, and the man: “Because politics and ceremonials are not separate subjects, the one serious, the other superficial. Ritual is not the mask of force, but is itself a type of power», and Henry: “When is it from?”, and the man: “For popes from Alexander 6^th pope and from July 2th, when the first ephemeral decorations on the streets with architectonic style, but it has took from ancient Rome; the procession was very crowded because the composition was very studied: the first position was the Florentine aristocracy, Italian and European ambassadors, the Roman clergy and very much servants, and the ceremonial man thrown coins for the sum of 3000 ducats, and it is necessary to took the favor of people.”, and Henry: “Why always the money?”, and the man: “For the same motive for gather the people around the power men, wealth, otherwise nobody there is. And the man gone away and after turned toward to Henry and he said: “You must keep it in your memory because you have to repeat it to me during the exam”.

Alessandro Lusana