![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After reading this book, I have a stronger interest in going to Florence and hunting down some of these spots, as well as, of course, its many other famous sites. In fact, we were supposed to travel to Rome in March 2020 but had to cancel that trip due to the emergence of COVID-19. I have not personally visited Florence or Italy for that matter. Several sites described in the book can be visited in today’s Florence, including San Jacopo di Ripoli, Vespasiano da Bisticci’s barely marked tomb in Santa Croce, and Vespasiano’s bookshop, which is now a pizza restaurant. Of course Florence and Italy were not an island and the broader matters of the day described in this book go well beyond its borders. The politics, religion, and social concerns of what we know of today as Italy (but at the time was comprised of separate city-states) run in strands throughout the book as well. Renaissance Florence is brought to life through descriptions of the bookseller’s shop and surrounds. European History * Italian History * Obscure History * Florence, Italy * Etymology * Renaissance History *Islamic/Christian Renaissance History TRAVEL INSPIRATION:Īs the title of this work suggests, Florence, Italy, is at the core of this tale. ![]()
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