Florence: A Portrait, by Michael Levey

Florence: A Portrait,

Michael Levey

498 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction art history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
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In Dante, exiled from Florence in 1321, Levey finds an inspired guide to the city's thirteenth-century appearance, people, culture, and constitution, and a wrathful commentator on the politics that had fouled "l'ovil di San Giovanni", the "St. Joh...

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