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Under papal rule the nobles -- more particularly the ghibellines -- and the lesser tyrants of the Val di Taro had suffered rudely, plundered by
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912
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In the late middle ages, the faction in Italian political life that supported the (Holy Roman) Emperor. Rivals of the Guelphs.
March 22, 2008