In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . a day; It is so in the very center of the touristsFlorence. He will look out on its massive roughwalls each time he sips his tea at Giacosas; and hewill usually buy his morning paper from one of thegiornalisti that spreadtheir wares on the sediliaat its corner. The Strozzi, wealthybankers, were for long apowerful family, some-times friends, sometimesrivals of the decline of the fam-ily began with the deathof the famous Filippo Inthe Medlcean fortress ofSan Giovanni Battista(now Fortezza da Bas-so). The palace, whichst
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . a day; It is so in the very center of the touristsFlorence. He will look out on its massive roughwalls each time he sips his tea at Giacosas; and hewill usually buy his morning paper from one of thegiornalisti that spreadtheir wares on the sediliaat its corner. The Strozzi, wealthybankers, were for long apowerful family, some-times friends, sometimesrivals of the decline of the fam-ily began with the deathof the famous Filippo Inthe Medlcean fortress ofSan Giovanni Battista(now Fortezza da Bas-so). The palace, whichstill belongs to the fam-ily, was built in the fif-teenth and sixteenth cen-turies according to thedesigns of Benedetto daMaiano and later II Cro-naca. Within there is asmall collection of pictures and marbles by paintersand sculptors of the first rank. This collection,unfortunately, has steadily diminished under the con-stant pressure of the enormous building debt, a debtthat has persisted through five centuries. Another palace conspicuous by its great size. Its. A corner lantern ofPalazzo Strozzi. the i6o Castles and Palaces battlemented walls, and made familiar by Its situationand Its present use by the banking house of French,Lemon and Company (American Express Co.), isthat now named Palazzo Ferroni, but better knownas Palazzo Spini (on the Piazza Santa Trinlta justat the bridge). It was built about 1300 by theSpini, a family whose head was a wealthy wool mer-chant and the leader of the Florentine Guelphs. Inthe middle of the seventeenth century half of thepalace passed, by purchase, into the hands of theFerroni family, and the other half in 1807. Thesouthern facade rose straight from the bed of theArno, and the street passed under the palace by along archway. Room after room and balcony afterbalcony overhanging the river had been built untilthe height reached sixty braccie and grave fears wereentertained for the stability of the building. So inJuly, 1823, that side of the Pa
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