She tried to swim but
She drowned, had to
Be saved just in time.
She tried to swim but
She drowned, had to
Be saved just in time.
She built a lot of muscle
But sadly losing some fat
She had to overcompensate.
The sound of school rings
Time to go there again
Even if it’s going to hurt.
Mrs Casati who modelled for
Various photographers due to
Her fashion sense, poorer but
Still very bit as fascinating.
Some new alliances and people
To serve, challenging but at least
That gives her great relief from
The former life she’s trapped in.
Good times for her that she
Made new alliances and
Donated charitably as a
Teacher to her students.
Florence was at some point one of the earliest banking hubs in history largely due to people finding a way around the usury ban as it was forbidden before (and still is in some Muslim countries if I remember). Usury is the practise of charging interest, albeit one that had to be circumvented for others as they have to find other ways to make their ends meet. Especially if it’s for survival reasons.
I suspect that’s how the Medici family started out as, assuming the earliest Medici (Medico di Pontone) was actually a doctor and though his subsequent relatives still dabble in medicine via medical gardens, it probably wasn’t enough to make their ends meet. They certainly did have a habit of selling medicines before but had to diversify to make more money.
I suspect that’s actually how they got into banking. Though the same can be said of any once struggling family that had to resort to the most dubious tactics. Dante Alighieri may’ve suspected it but one of his relatives had to to support its family from losing a lot of money before.
(As somebody who had aristocratic aspirations and pretensions, he may’ve lucked out through a direct descendant of his marrying into aristocracy.)