If Ghibellines cut their fruit crosswise, Guelphs cut it straight down. If Ghibellines wore white roses, Guelphs wore red. . . . Ghibellines tore a statue of Christ from a church altar and burned it because its face was turned in what was considered a 'Guelph direction."
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"In Ghibelline Bergamo, some Calabrians were murdered by their hosts who discovered from their way of eating garlic that they were Guelphs."
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"The timid weakness of individuals, the insecurity of groups, and the delusion of superiority generated perpetual fear, suspicion, and contempt . . . " hmmm how did they fix it tho
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And so began the rise of those who support the Dude, who Abides.
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And then there were the White Guelphs and the Black Guelphs, further subdividing...
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Worth noting this only happened when the Guelphs defeated their rivals in a major battle... and then immediately turned on each other.
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IIRC 60 years of civil wars until that political divide basically no longer mapped to any real politics and was discarded.
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There is a Guelph Line in Ontario Canada.
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