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Brothers of Italy

Brothers of Italy
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Overview

Italian political party

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  1. Each party had their turn of victory; each, when vanquished, went into exile, and carried on the war outside the walls; each had their opportunity of remodelling the orders and framework of government, and each did so relentlessly at the cost of their opponents. They excluded classes, they proscribed families, they confiscated property, they sacked and burned warehouses, they levelled the palaces, and outraged the…

    R. W. Church, Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.

    Close in meaning to Brothers of Italy; the term itself is not named.

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  2. In the next year (188) Cato acted in the senate with the party which tried unsuccessfully to refuse the triumph to the two consuls of 189, M. Fulvius Nobilior and Cn. Manlius Vulso, the former of whom had gained none but trifling advantages over the Aetolians, while the latter had disgraced the Roman name by making war without authorization upon the Gauls of Asia Minor, and had also suffered a humiliating defeat…

    Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes

    Close in meaning to Brothers of Italy; the term itself is not named.

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  3. Thus the other party not only carried their point of dividing the lands, but also ordained, that all the senate should swear to confirm this law, and to defend it against whoever should attempt to alter it, indicting great penalties on those that should refuse the oath. All the senators seeing the necessity they were in, took the oath, remembering the example of Metellus in old time, who refusing to swear upon the…

    Plutarch, Plutarch

    Close in meaning to Brothers of Italy; the term itself is not named.

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Part of Conservatism.

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