Sentence:  On the street outside , Hieronymus envisions a holocaust of the vanities of this world , such a burning of artistic and erotic productions as his namesake actually brought to pass in <WSD>Florence</WSD> , and prophetically he issues his curse : `` Gladius Dei super terram cito et velociter '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries