TY - BOOK AU - Hibbert,Christopher TI - Florence: the biography of a city SN - 9780140166446 AV - 324 DG 737.3 H624f 2004 U1 - 945/.51 20 PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Penguin, KW - Florence (Italy) KW - History KW - Florencia (Italia) KW - Historia KW - Descripciones y viajes N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-383) and index; The Roman City, 59 BC-AD 405 -- Marauders, guelphs and ghibellines, 1115-1280 -- Blacks and whites, 1280-1302 -- Life in Dante's Florence, 1265-1348 -- Strikes and riots, 1348-1420 -- The rise of the House of Medici, 1420-39 -- Artists of the Medici, 1439-64 -- Father of the country, 1455-64 -- Wives and weddings, 1464-72 -- The Pazzi conspiracy, 1478 -- Lorenzo the Magnificent, 1478-92 -- The bonfire of the vanities, 1492-98 -- Conspirators and cardinals, 1498-1527 -- Siege and murder, 1527-37 -- The grand Duke Cosimo I, 1537-74 -- Pageants and pleasures, 1560-1765 -- Tourists and tuft-hunters, 1740-88 -- The Grand Duke Peter Leopold, 1765-91 -- Napoleonic interlude, 1796-1827 -- Risorgimento, 1814-59 -- The capital of Italy -- "Ville Toute Anglaise" -- Residents and visitors -- "Firenze fascistissima," 1919-40 -- War and peace, 1940-66 -- Flood and restoration, 1966-92 N2 - Weaves political, social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations and line drawings that describe various buildings and treasures of the city ER -