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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle
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Lucensis, A.D. 1313).] But there was never any trial
had; the denial was considered lame; and German History continues
to shudder, in that passage, and assert. Poisoned in the wine of
his sacrament: the Florentines, it is said, were at the bottom of
it, and had hired the rat-eyed Dominican;-- "O Italia,
O Firenze!" That is not the way to achieve Italian
Liberty, or Obedience to God; that is the way to confirm, as by
frightful stygian oath, Italian Slavery, or continual Obedience,
under varying forms, to the Other Party! The voice of Dante, then
alive among men, proclaims, sad and loving as a mother's voice,
and implacable as a voice of Doom, that you are wandering, and
have wandered, in a terrible manner!--

Peter, the then Archbishop of Mainz, says there had not for
hundreds of years such a death befallen the German Empire;
to which Kohler, one of the wisest moderns, gives his assent:
"It could not enough be lamented," says he, "that so vigilant a
Kaiser, in the flower of his years, should have been torn from the
world in so devilish a manner: who, if he had lived longer, might
have done Teutschland unspeakable benefit." [Kohler, pp. 282-285.]

HENRY'S SON JOHANN IS KING OF BOHEMIA; AND LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN,
WITH A CONTESTED ELECTION, IS KAISER.

Henry VII. having thus perished suddenly, his Son Johann, scarcely
yet come of age, could not follow him as Kaiser, according to the
Father's thought; though in due time he prosecuted his advancement
otherwise to good purpose, and proved a very stirring man in the
world. By his Father's appointment, to whom as Kaiser the chance