Editing Ciompi Revolt (section)

===End of Ciompi control===
The city of [[Florence]] was governed by the Ciompi until 1382 when fear of foreign incursion and a prolonged dispute between the wool merchants and the dyers was used to justify an intervention by the elite families on behalf of a disintegrating government. Delegitimizing the new established guilds and removing them from constitutional functions became a main objective of the post-1382 regime that repealed the guild government's reforms. City government engaged in a concerted campaign to depict the non-guilded workers as criminal and heretical.<ref name=plebian />{{rp|742}}

[[File:Machiavel Offices Florence.jpg|thumb|left|Statue of Niccolò Machiavelli at the [[Uffizi]]]]

The Ciompi Rebellion was not particularly long, lasting only for three and a half years (1378–1382).<ref name=plebian />{{rp|737}} Yet, it not only reflected the long-existing social issue of late 14th-century Florence, but also constituted a long-lasting impact on many generations to come.<ref name=plebian />{{rp|737}} It greatly influenced Florentine society in the 15th century, and became a memorable moment of Florentine history, which historians of later centuries all showed great interest in, but interpreted the same event in a variety of different ways.