Religion in Renaissance Florence shaped politics, art and everyday life. Discover the Medici relationship with the Church, the rise of Savonarola and how faith became inseparable from power in the Renaissance city. […]
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Discover Jewish Florence through the story of its historic community, the lost Medici ghetto and the magnificent Great Synagogue. Explore a fascinating chapter of Florence that disappeared from the city map but remains part of its history. […]
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The Black Death devastated Florence in 1348, killing a large part of its population and transforming society. Discover the plague through Boccaccio’s eyewitness account and explore what happened to medieval Florence during one of the greatest catastrophes in its history. […]
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Follow a literary walk through Florence and explore the streets, churches, palaces and piazzas connected with Dante, Machiavelli, E. M. Forster, Dan Brown and modern Florentine crime fiction. […]
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Discover Marco Vichi and Inspector Bordelli, a crime series set in 1960s Florence that combines murder investigations with post-war memories, everyday life and the dramatic changes transforming the city. […]
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Discover Magdalen Nabb and Marshal Guarnaccia, a distinctive crime series that explores Florence through its neighbourhoods, ordinary residents, social tensions and the quiet observations of a Sicilian Carabinieri marshal. […]
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