The text presented here, Francesco Bocchi's Le Bellezze della citta di Fiorenza (The Beauties of the City of Florence), originally published in 1591, is one of the most remarkable of Renaissance writings on art and thus an especially ...

This newly revised book shows in detail the architecture of Florence.

A detailed text to get to know the city in every corner, from Piazza della Signoria to Ponte Vecchio, from Palazzo Vecchio to the Uffizi Gallery, with insights into the most famous works of art such as David of Michelangelo, preserved in ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.