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Florence

"It was in this grand workshop of Florence that the tradition of antiquity met with Christian idealism, where painters quenched the lips of archangels with Olympian nectar."

Edgar Quinet, Les Roumains, Allemagne et Italie, Paris, 1856

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Rinascita!

It’s impossible to imagine the Renaissance without Florence—or Florence without the Renaissance. Legendary artists transformed the city into the greatest open-air gallery. Why Florence?

The banker and the soldier

Florence’s rise to glory was a constant oscillation between war and peace, faith and betrayal, the lure of wealth and the edge of the sword. Its rulers were brilliant bankers with the heart of a soldier.

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