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Since early in the nineteenth century
FLORENCE has been celebrated as the most beautiful city in Italy.
Stendhal staggered around its streets in a perpetual stupor of delight; the
Brownings sighed over its idyllic charms; and E.M. Forster's Room with a View
portrayed it as the great southern antidote to the sterility of Anglo-Saxon
life. For most people Florence comes close to living up to the myth only in its
first, resounding impressions. The pinnacle of Brunelleschi's stupendous
cathedral dome dominates the cityscape, and the close-up view is even more
breathtaking, with the multicoloured
Duomo rising behind the marble-clad
Baptistry ..........
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..The fact is, the best of Florence is to be seen indoors. Under
the patronage of the
Medici family, the city's artists and thinkers were instigators of the
shift from the medieval to the modern world-view, and churches, galleries and
museums are the places to get to grips with their achievement. The development
of the Renaissance can be plotted in the vast picture collection of the
Uffizi and in the sculpture of the
Bargello and the
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo........
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