books.google.com - Greater than Emperor charts the remarkable process by which Rome tried to forge a new civic identity, similar in constitution to contemporary city-republics but conceptually much greater. At the forefront of the process stood the idiosyncratic and astonishing young notary Cola di Rienzo. On May 21, 1347,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Greater_Than_Emperor.html?id=5lS6t76TdlkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGreater Than Emperor
