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  divider2.jpg - A late sixteenth-century drawing by Cesare Ripa (?–1622), the author of a highly influential book of emblems and virtues, showing democracy as a roughly dressed peasant woman clutching a pomegranate, a symbol of the unity of the people, and a handful of (presumably cunning and poisonous) snakes  
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A late sixteenth-century drawing by Cesare Ripa (?–1622), the author of a highly influential book of emblems and virtues, showing democracy as a roughly dressed peasant woman clutching a pomegranate, a symbol of the unity of the people, and a handful of (presumably cunning and poisonous) snakes Download Original Image
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