Val D'Arno
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781404376168
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; European; General; History - General; Art & Art Instruction; Fiction - General
First sentence: 1. On this day, of this month, the 20th of October, six hundred and twenty-three years ago, the merchants and tradesmen of Florence met before the church of Santa Croce; marched through the city to the palace of their Podesta; deposed their Podesta; set over themselves, in his place, a knight belonging to an inferior city; called him "Captain of the People;" appointed under him a Signory of twelve Ancients chosen from among themselves; hung a bell for him on the tower of the Lion, that he might ring it at need, and gave him the flag of Florence to bear, half white, and half red.