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. 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. 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. 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. Footnotes References Bruni, Leonardo. "History of the Florentine People: Volume 3". Translated by James Hankins. London: Harvard University Press, 2007 (hard cover, ). Brucker, Gene A. "The Revolt of the Ciompi", in Florentine Studies (1968). Brucker, Gene A. Florence: The Golden Age, 1138–1737. New York: Abbeville Press, 1984 (hardcover, ); Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 (paperback, ). Brucker, Gene A. Renaissance Florence. New York. Wiley. 1969. Print. Pages 67–79.(paperback, ) Chronicles of the Tumult of the Ciompi (Monash publications in history; 7) by Rosemary Kantor and Louis Green (translators). Clayton, Vic.: Monash University, 1991 (paperback, ). Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr. Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 (hardcover, ). Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr. The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence (Studies in social discontinuity). New York: Academic Press, 1980 (hardcover, ). Cohn, Samuel Kline, Jr. Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200–1425. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2008 (hardcover, ). Cohn, Samuel Kline Jr. Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France, and Flanders. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004 (hardcover, ) Far, James Richard. Artisans in Europe, 1300 -1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pages 180–182. Ferruci, Francesco. Italian Romanticism: Myth vs. History. Italian Issue 98.1 (1983) Pages 111–117 Ianziti, Gary. Leonardo Bruni, the Medici, and Florentine Histories. Journal of the History of Ideas 69.1 (2008): Pages 1–22 Hibbert, Christopher "The House of the Medici: Its Rise and Fall". William Morrow Paperbacks, 1999 () King, Margaret L. "The Renaissance in Europe" ()