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TIL Francesco Guicciardini, a 16th century historian and right-hand man of Pope Clement VII once wrote in his journal "three things i'd willingly see before i die: a well ordered republic in my native Florence, the barbarian invaders driven from Italy and the world freed from the rascal priests"

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