The Giant Quotes

“The Jews have been driven out of our city several times over the course of my own lifetime, not counting the many times before that. They were sent away from Florence along with their greatest supporters, the Medici, but our republican leaders soon realized how indispensable they were to commerce in our city and brought them back. Now, our wool guild hardly operates without them, but when they were recalled, only a few came straggling back. You could hardly blame those who stayed away, I think. Without the protection of our more powerful families, why would they return to Florence?”
― Laura Morelli, The Giant: A Novel of Michelangelo's David