Don't you remember all those wise old words you wrote? Tranquillity, peace and enlightenment? Be worthy of the man history remembers.'
History remembers a man who wrote about tranquility, peace and enlightenment.
The memory of its fierce medieval history lingers still, the tales of family feuds that inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ended only with the 14th-century ascendancy of the tough Scalageri dynasty, in turn conquered by Venice in 1405.