In Italy, For Thirty Years Under The Borgias, They Had Warfare, Terror,
Murder, And Bloodshed, But They Produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci
And The Renaissance.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci
and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had
five hundred years of democracy and peace -- and what did they produce?
The cuckoo-clock.
-- Orson Welles, "The Third Man"
