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"Servant of the Servants"

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"It's really resurrected!"

They informed and confirmed to each other the news of the resurrection of the Son and greeted each other with a loud voice,** Amused, chasing and shoving through one dark and damp street after another, these streets are winding and criss-crossed, but there are no rules in order or length, and the degree of confusion and complexity is not inferior even to that of a plate of overturned goat's intestinesThe layout of the city of Florence in 1478 is very interesting, and the division is based on neither wealth nor status, but family members who share the same surname and blood line, together with relatives, well-bred priests, merchants, mercenaries subordinate to themselves, Servants and artisans lived together along a street, or around a square, in order to be able to gather the most strength and support in the shortest possible time.

The square boulders grew like the leaves of a climbing plant stretched out one after the other, and the thick walls of coveting and hatred, the heavily guarded dovetail battlements and battlements, the ramparts, the heavy iron bars, the awl-like cage towers, the large, pointed two-color arches with shields and clan coats of arms greedily fought for every inch of space and light. Their thick shadows are intimately superimposed on each other, so that between the two blocks, there is always a single line in the sky, and the streets must be dark all day long.

The Governing Council of Florence has issued decrees on more than one occasion in an attempt to curb or correct this bad trend, but it has always been due to various reasons, and the powerful families are always closely connected to a specific neighborhood and will never be easily moved, such as the Albizi street, which belongs to the Albizzi family, and the lintels of the houses in Piazza Pirouzzi are mostly engraved with the Pirouzzi family coat of arms, and the Baldi family is based on the Baldi street on the south bank of the Arno River...... And, the Medici district, San Lorenzo.

The Medici family's mansion is located in the eastern part of the ruling square, and its brown fortress-like architecture is rough, old, The only decoration except for the arched windows on each floor is the triangular relief decoration at the lintel of the main entrance, with two giant lions guarding the Florentine emblem on either side of the coat of arms, and the virginity flower (lily) with the stamens in the coat of arms protruding instead of the somewhat ridiculous lilies and small round ball-like family coats of arms of the Medici family, because it was also the office of the Florentine Consulate, and Cosimo I, the head of the Medici family at the time, made a rather generous concession on this issue.

His efforts paid off handsomely over the next half-century, and day after day the signs of lilies and balls spread outward and multiplied from the most unnoticeable places...... To this day, it and the power and ideas of the Medici family that it represents cover almost all of Florence.

Giuliano de' Medici, the second son of the Medici family, wearing a scarlet cloak with sleeves, slowly steps out of the Palazzo Vecchio, following the shadows of the zigzag towers towards a straight and wide (compared to other roads) passageway. Like the second sons of all the families, he was taller, more handsome, stronger and bohemian than his brother Lorenzo...... That last point seems to make him even more attractive.

The Florentine populace made way for him, greeted him, or chanted the name of the Medici in support, while the Medici's second son was more humble and enthusiastic, whether it was a rude butcher, a cunning notary, a prominent member of the chamber, a stinking carver in tight leather trousers, a ** with bells hanging from his hat and bun as required by the law, or a penitent in a black peaked burqa, he could justly give him the answer he deserved. This kind of pleasant and satisfying behavior may seem simple and easy, but it is quite rare among people of his age, especially when this young man still has wealth, status, and appearance that are difficult for ordinary people to achieve, so that although his face is a little pale, his movements are slightly stiff, and the timing of his response is not so perfect, the Florentine people, especially women, agree that his slight faux pas do not come from the arrogance of his heart, after all, two years ago today, it was his lover," The day when the Venus of the world "Justuz, his wife Simonetta, died of lung disease.

Their assumptions are not entirely wrong, but they are far from the truth. Most of the reason for this young man's emaciation was **, not emotion, and it must be attributed to Giuliano and his brother's father, Piero de' Medici the "Gout".

This sickness, which is like being cursed by the devil, always comes and goes in the middle of the night, without a trace, without the slightest prediction, and can make a healthy and strong young man immobile and miserable in an instant. A quarter of patients likened the pain of a gout attack to being pierced through the skin with a sword; One in five likens it to a broken bone; One-third likened it to being burned by a charcoal fire, and the rest thought the pain was simply indescribable.

Giuliano was one of the last type, who became ill before the dawn of Good Friday (the first two days of Easter Sunday), and a pain that seemed to have tormented him for an entire night and two days, during which even the slightest movement or touch could have caused him to faint in pain. At its worst, the red, swollen and hot knees and calves couldn't even bear the weight of even a silk sheet.

His elder brother Lorenzo de' Medici also had the same chronic disease, and their father, Piero de' Medici, gave these two sons Medici-style high noses, upturned jaws, narrow eyes, and hard facial contours, and also wrote into the legacy list of strange diseases that had plagued his life; Although it was not his intention, the world is always like this, and who can do everything smoothly and be satisfied?

The second son of the Medici gasped softly, licked his teeth and waited for another wave of pain to pass, he narrowed his eyes and raised his head, the vermilion octagonal vault of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Flore was in front of him, and in order to expand the square, the Consulate made a decision, and in the blink of an eye, the disgraced magnates who originally lived in the area were charged with various crimes, their property was confiscated, their houses and towers were forcibly demolished, and everyone, including fragile women, newborn babies and dying old people, was forced to move to remote areas in humiliation in a matter of days, and even the entire Florentine people's emotions were always so extreme, not on this side of the scaleEven on the other side of the scale, they never cared to lift a certain family, a certain person high, and never minded throwing him down and trampling him into mud.

"Christ is risen!"

"Resurrected!" the announcement was clearly directed at him, and Giuliano had to suppress his impatience and irritability from the pain, and replied in accordance with the canon. At the same time he turned as little as he could, ready to kiss the pesky announcer three times, according to Easter custom.

From the shadows of the paradgia emerges from the shadows of the cloister, the eldest son of the Pache family, Giuliano in-law, and Bernardo Bandini follows him like a heel follows the upper. The two young men were dressed unusually gorgeously today, especially the young Patch, who was wearing an open silver embossed brocade coat embroidered with gold clan coats, revealing a creamy velvet tight tunic embellished with pearls and a jeweled necklace around his neck, and the pleated wide sleeves could almost fit into another smaller Patchy Fortunately, his shoulders, sleeves, The padding in the leggings was not as jaw-dropping as it used to be, and Juliano remembers seeing the young Patch two days ago, with the codopes between his legs (the cloth that covers his crotch) embroidered with delicate patterns, inlaid with gems and pearls, and the "sufficient" padding inside made it look like a baby's head with a hat, not to mention the rest of his body.

Patch stretched out his arm to Giuliano and hugged him as if he were a true friend or brother, and kissed him.

Giuliano was surprised, but barely responded with the same speed and intensity.

Even though the Medici and Pache had confessed their sins in the presence of the Archon and the priests no less than ten times in accordance with the Bible, and tried their best to show forgiveness and friendship for each other, even his sister Bianca was married into the Pacch family as collateral for the promise of reconciliation, but as political and commercial enemies for nearly a hundred years, the Pache family had never been able to obtain a single honorary seat in the Medici family's ruling group, which prevented them from gaining any benefit in any of the Florentine resolutions, and might even be sacrificed; and more recently took away the financial management of Pope Sixtus IV from the Medici family.

Perhaps Lorenzo should be reminded to see what the Patches have been doing lately, whether they have caught the handle of some idiot in the Hundreds, or whether they have bribed an agent of the Medici family.

The jewels and gold on Pacci's body hurt the ribs of the Medici's second son, and Giuliano suddenly remembered that he had not put sleeveless chain mail under his coat as was customary today, nor had he carried any weapons, and Lorenzo had personally reminded him of this on more than one occasion, but the insomnia and mental malaise caused by gout and alcoholism from time to time always made him unable to remember anything. Giuliano hesitated to look at the Medici Mansion, which had disappeared at the end of the street, and then at Giotto's bell tower, which was nearby, next to the cathedral where Easter Sunday Mass was held, where he could clearly see crowds of monks pouring into the side entrance of the church with the cross and the icon of the Virgin Mary.

Giuliano dismissed the idea of going back, not wanting to be reprimanded by his brother for not making it to the first Mass and Holy Communion. Francisco's arm had already wrapped around his neck, and Bernardo grabbed his other arm intimately, and the two of them smiled and walked forward with great affection and affection.

Note 1: Florence had a hundred-member equivalent of the Roman Senate, in which the Medici family held a leading position through financial control. From 1434 to 1528, there were 9 people before and after.

Three young men stepped on the heels of the procession into the cathedral church, and the interior decoration was almost negligible compared to the beautiful exterior of the beautiful tricolor marble, mosaics, and carved windows, and the vermilion octagonal dome, which had been criticized by many conservatives as bright as the sunset. The Bible of the Fool", that is, the rose window that speaks the basic spirit of Christ in symbolic and metaphorical language, and the sunlight casts a faint shadow from the brilliant glass onto the ground and the crowd.

The second light source was a faint honey-yellow beeswax candle burning on the iron racks on either side of the small altar, the wick cut short so that it illuminated only a small part of the white linen altar cloth and the cross behind it.

The proximity to the altar, that is, the privilege of receiving Holy Communion at the hands of the presiding priest is almost exclusively the bankers living in the center of the city, the directors of the seven guilds, the members, the lawyers, or the officials of the Consulate and their families.

The noble and wealthy ladies were draped in pomegranate-shaped patterns, Cloaks of scopole and vase brocade or shawl tunics derived from vestments, velvet open-breasted dresses with jacquard sleeves, or long skirts with square necks and openwork velvet sleeves with cut-out velvet or satin and linen, sleeves joined by gold and silver strings and pearl buttons at the shoulders of the dress, deliberately reserved gaps to reveal a fluffy white silk or linen lining, and their necklines were more extensive than those of the commoners, so that they were more open than those of the commoners, so that they were decorated with delicate lace, and often clearly see "the glittering skin down to the bare half" (so one Reformer denounced the wide open neckline). Of course, in order not to be expelled from the church by the angry friars, they had to ask their fathers, brothers and husbands for large quantities of precious stones, pearls, delicate lace from Venice, and gold veils as thin as cicada's wings to cover their chests and necks.

Of course, their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons were no less than suitable, with six-strand silk brocade in crimson, navy, burgundy, gold, and black, and rows of jeweled buttons around the edges and tears of the embossed brocade coats, and small rings of gold and silver on the velvet cloaks, and robes and capes with filigree and capes adorned with the family crest of jewels, and carved swords that were more decorated than practical.