The City of Florence
Subtitle: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780374124045
First sentence: Florence, wrote the chronicler Dino Campagni early in the fourteenth century, is a noble city with a temperate climate; and though poor in subject territory, it is blessed with a "broad and majestic river, of sweet water, that divides the city almost in the middle."