The Story of Florence

by Edmund G. Gardner

• [CHAPTER VIII]
• The Baptistery, the Campanile, and the Duomo [246]
• [CHAPTER IX]
• The Palazzo Riccardi–San Lorenzo–San Marco [283]
• [CHAPTER X]
• The Accademia delle Belle Arti–The Santissima Annunziata, and other Buildings [314]
• [CHAPTER XI]
• The Bridges–The Quarter of Santa Maria Novella [340]
• [CHAPTER XII]
• Across the Arno [374]
• [CHAPTER XIII]
• Conclusion [409]

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• Genealogical Table of the Medici [423]
• Chronological Index of Architects, Sculptors and Painters [424]
• General Index [430]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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• Pallas taming a Centaur (Photogravure)[1][Frontispiece]
• Florence from the Boboli Gardens[3]
• The Buondelmonte Tower[20]
• The Palace of the Parte Guelfa[29]
• Arms of Parte Guelfa[31]
• Florentine Families[33]
• Corso Donati's Tower[40]
• Across the Ponte Vecchio[47]
• Mercato Nuovo, the Flower Market[51]
• The Campanile[63]
• Cross of the Florentine People[70]
• Florence in the Days of Lorenzo the Magnificent[80]
• The Badia of Fiesole[83]
• "In the Sculptor's Work-shop" (Nanni di Banco)[1][97]
• Arms of the Pazzi[110]
• The Death of Savonarola[1][135]
• "The Dawn" (Michelangelo)[1][144]
• The Palazzo Vecchio[147]
• Looking through Vasari's Loggia, Uffizi[161]
• "Venus" (Sandro Botticelli)[1][178]
• Orcagna's Tabernacle, Or San Michele[185]

• Window of Or San Michele[191]
• Tower of the Arte della Lana[201]
• House of Dante[207]
• Arms of the Sesto di San Piero[213]
• Bargello Courtyard and Staircase[217]
• Santa Croce[233]
• Old Houses on the Arno[245]
• The Baptistery[251]
• The Bigallo[264]
• Porta della Mandorla, Duomo[267]
• Statue of Boniface VIII[270]
• Arms of the Medici from the Badia at Fiesole[283]
• Tomb of Giovanni and Piero dei Medici[1][288]
• The Well of S. Marco[299]
• The Cloister of the Innocenti[331]
• A Florentine Suburb[337]
• The Ponte Vecchio[343]
• The Tower of S. Zanobi[347]
• Arms of the Strozzi[353]
• In the Green Cloisters, S. Maria Novella[357]
• In the Boboli Gardens[374]
• The Fortifications of Michelangelo[399]
• Porta San Giorgio[403]
• Map of Florencefacing [422]

The Story of Florence