This concise and lucid history of Florence--from its early days, through its zenith as a prosperous city state that gave birth to the Renaissance, up to the Arn
Of all Italian cities, Florence has always had the strongest English accent: the Goncourt brothers in 1855 called it 'ville tout anglaise'. Though that accent i
Ranging from the days of the 6th century--when the early lagoon-dwellers lived "like sea-birds, in huts built on heaps of osiers" to the exquisite city of 18th-