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===Impacts on historians from different eras=== [[File:Michele di lando.JPG|thumb|Statue of [[Michele di Lando]], [[Loggia del Mercato Nuovo]], Florence]] In the 15th century, it would not be surprising for Florentine scholars, who were part of the elite, to view the uprising negatively. [[Leonardo Bruni]] regarded the uprising as a mob out of control, whose members viciously looted and murdered the innocent.<ref name=plebian />{{rp|737}} He viewed this event as a historical cautionary tale, which presented the horrendous consequence when rabbles managed to seize control from the ruling class.<ref name=bruni /> In the 16th century, [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] harbored a somewhat different view than Bruni. Although he echoed Bruni's perspective, also referring to them as the mob, the rabbles, preoccupied by fear and hatred, he was more favorable than Bruni in viewing the event as a whole. According to Machiavelli, the revolt was a social phenomenon between one group of people, who were determined to obtain freedom, while the other determined to abolish it.<ref>Leobovici, Martine. "From Fight to Debate: Machiavelli and the Revolt of the Ciompi." ''Philosophy and Social Criticism'' 28.6 (2002): 647–660: 647.</ref> In the 19th century, however, historians began to show sympathy to the Ciompi. Romantic historians had a tendency to interpret history as an epic tale between the evil and good, and this applied to the Ciompi Rebellion. Romantic historians regarded Michele di Lando, the leader of the rebellion, as a hero to the people who fought against their ruthless oppressors.<ref>Ferruci, Francesco. "Italian Romanticism: Myth vs. History." ''MLN'' 98.1 (1983): 111–117: 113.</ref> In the late nineteenth century, a sculpture of the popular leader Michele di Lando was placed in a niche on the façade of the [[Loggia del Mercato Nuovo]]. [[Marxist]] historians also sympathized with the Ciompi artisans, viewing them as the early [[proletariat]], who tried to overthrow the oppressive bourgeoisies.<ref name=lantschner>Lantschner, Patrick. "The Ciompi Revolution Constructed: Modern Historians and the Nineteenth-Century Paradigm of Revolution." ''Annali di Storia di Firenze'' 4 (2011): 277–297.</ref>{{rp|286}} Recent histories treat the conflict as a lens reflecting the issues of Florentine society in the late 14th century, and also as a catalyst for Florence's period politics.<ref name=bruni /> Moreover, to them, the rebellion is a lens that reflects history as an ever changing entity, as historians living in different times have different "presents", and one's present dictates how one views the past.<ref name=lantschner />{{rp|289}}
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