. Men and manners of old Florence. %len and <3Ianners^ of Old Florence By gUIDO BIAGI Librarian of the Laurentian and Riccardi Libraries, Florence With Forty-nine Illustrations CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG AND CO. 1909 (All rights reserved.) PREFACE I HESE five essays, which now appear for the first-*? time collected in book form, do not pretend tobe a complete study of the private life of theFlorentines in different centuries, but only sketchesfor a larger picture which I hope some time to beable to execute. But, although detached, these sketches give realisticglimpses of the social life in Flore
. Men and manners of old Florence. %len and <3Ianners^ of Old Florence By gUIDO BIAGI Librarian of the Laurentian and Riccardi Libraries, Florence With Forty-nine Illustrations CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG AND CO. 1909 (All rights reserved.) PREFACE I HESE five essays, which now appear for the first-*? time collected in book form, do not pretend tobe a complete study of the private life of theFlorentines in different centuries, but only sketchesfor a larger picture which I hope some time to beable to execute. But, although detached, these sketches give realisticglimpses of the social life in Florence from thethirteenth to the beginning of last century ; of thetimes, in short, when she had an individual life andcharacter of her own, and her native manners andcustoms had not yet been submerged and lost in thegreat stream of modern influence and fashion. I should like to state, however, that these essays arefounded upon entirely new material and documentswhich have never hitherto been used, and are in noway merely compiledcu31924030941565
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