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The Story of Florence

The Story of Florence

by Edmund G. Gardner

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Author
Gardner, Edmund G., 1869-1935
Credits
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
DG: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Italy, Vatican City, Malta
Subject
Florence (Italy) -- History
Category
Text
eBook-No.
37793
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37793
Release Date
October 18, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Story of Florence
  2. 2.by Edmund G. Gardner — Illustrated by Nelly Erichsen
  3. 3.PREFACE
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. 6.CHAPTER I — The People and Commune of Florence
  7. 7.CHAPTER II — The Times of Dante and Boccaccio
  8. 8.CHAPTER III — The Medici and the Quattrocento
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV — From Fra Girolamo to Duke Cosimo
  10. 10.CHAPTER V — The Palazzo Vecchio–The Piazza della Signoria–The Uffizi
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI — Or San Michele and the Sesto di San Piero
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII — From the Bargello past Santa Croce
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — The Baptistery, the Campanile, and the Duomo
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — The Palazzo Riccardi–San Lorenzo San Marco.
  15. 15.CHAPTER X — The Accademia delle Belle Arti–The Santissima Annunziata–And other Buildings
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI — The Bridges–The Quarter of Santa Maria Novella
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII — Across the Arno — In the Sala dell' Iliade . — In the Sala di Saturno . — In the Sala di Giove . — In the Sala di Marte . — In the Sala di Apollo and Sala di Venere . — The Sala dell' Educazione di Giove and following rooms.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — Conclusion
  19. 19.TABLE OF THE MEDICI
  20. 20.GENERAL INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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