Chapter 12 FLORENCE No.12

PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA AND PALAZZO VECCHIO

In every ancient city of the world, cities that in themselves for the most part have been nations, one may find some spot holy or splendid that instantly evokes an image of that of which it is a symbol,-which sums up, as it were, in itself all the sanctity, beauty, and splendour of her fame, in whose nam