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Florence ( FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] ) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 360,930 inhabitants in 2023, and 984,991 in its metropolitan area.Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Centre of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes ranked it as one of the most beautiful cities in the world in 2010.Florence plays an important role in Italian fashion, and is ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world by Global Language Monitor; furthermore, it is a major national economic centre, as well as a tourist and industrial hub. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Public Life in Renaissance Florence
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Florence in poetry, history and art
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Le Bellezze della città di Firenze
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Naples, Rome, Florence : impressions de voyage, abrégé d'un journal écrit pour ma famille
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Naples, Rome, Florence : impressions de voyage, abrégé d'un journal écrit pour ma famille
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Florence - 250 Planches en couleurs
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- Italian Journey
- Chronique des pauvres amants
- The Monster of Florence: A True Story
- Tigre reale
- A Room with a View
- The Mistress of the Inn
- Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
- Women Beware Women
- Il cavaliere del giglio
- The conspiracy of the Pazzi
- La scuola infernale
- La signora Morli, una e due
- Quattrocento
- Romola
- El curioso impertinente
- Morte a Firenze
- Dante Alighieri e i delitti della Medusa
- Dialogo patriottico sul libero commercio dei viveri
- Day 8 Tale 5 of the Decameron
- The Decameron
- La Toile et la Dague
- La più cara sei tu
- Giorno segreto
- Una brutta faccenda
- Andarás perdido por el mundo
- La casa delle voci
- Ipercalisse
- Il libro di Alice
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