Miniver cheevy's foolishness is clearly on display in the fifth quatrain. how so?

After reading a review on this story, I come to the conclusion the reason why her foolishness is cleary displayed it's because She never met the medici.

"Miniver loved the Medici,/ Albeit he had never seen one”

He, although wanted to become one of them

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productive can also mean:

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