The travel Lovers Library
Florence
By Pierre Gauthiez
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Some cities in the world are as dear to us as people, but can such a feeling be justified towards a foreign city and above all, towards a city so intensely foreign as Florence? I believe so, and I should like to shpw how and why one can gradually become so bewitched by the fair land of Florence that, if forced to leave it, one is haunted by a longing to return. It is not always the first impression that conveys this enchantment. I remember my very first glimpse of Florence — how long ago ! — on a mournful autumn evening, grey and rainy. In the last century Florence was badly lighted.
2 editions (2 ebooks) - first published in 1900
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Contain Flrence Pictures
THE present volume is intended to supply a popular history of the Florentine Republic, in such a form that it can also be used as a guide-book.
The art of the Pitti Palace, with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures
A few words on the genesis of this book might seem to be called for.
" FIRENZE, la Bellissima e Famosissima Figlia di Roma" was no mere metaphor of Dante, but a very true title of the First of Modern States.