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Florentine Life During the Renaissance

Florentine Life During the Renaissance

Scaife, Walter Bell

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150443146
ISBN13: 9781150443145
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.41 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: The Johns Hopkins press Subjects: Florence (Italy) Renaissance History / Ancient / Rome History / Europe / Italy History / Renaissance Travel / Europe / Italy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: At right angles to the principal front of the Palazzo Vecchio is the famous Loggia de' Lanzi, now filled with precious works of art, which appear to belong there so naturally that it is difficult to realize the fact that those mighty and graceful arches, and their beautifully ornamented panels were built for so prosaic a purpose as to afford shelter from the weather to the city officials when they must appear before the citizens at large.1 But such, we are assured, is the truth; and here took place in other days, stormy scenes of political discussions, and also other scenes, of festal gayety, pageantry, and pomp. Another fine example of early Florentine architecture is the Palazzo del Podesta, which served both as prison and as official residence of the foreign governor called U podesta. Recently restored, this ancient, fortress-like edifice now makes a fit setting for the National Museum, which contains a large collection of miscellaneous articles illustrative of the city's history. In the picturesque court, with its open corridors, is an imposing stone staircase leading to the second story; -- on example of a style of building once general throughout Tuscany, and which is only now disappearing from the mountain districts, where some of the houses to this day have no internal communication between the ground floor and the upper stories. The river Arno, passing through the city, flows beneath four noble stone bridges. ...

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