In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . he peace which it wasintended to commemorate lasted exactly four days,after which Florence again became divided by thequarrels and fights of the Guelph and Ghibellinefactions, and Pope Gregory, discouraged and morti-fied, left the city.—Carocci. Through several centuries the bridge carried numer-ous little houses built on its piers. These includedsix little chapels, three small convents, and severalpicturesque birdcage-like houses, in one of which livedBenedetto Menzini, a satirical poet of much reputa-tion in the seventeenth ce
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . he peace which it wasintended to commemorate lasted exactly four days,after which Florence again became divided by thequarrels and fights of the Guelph and Ghibellinefactions, and Pope Gregory, discouraged and morti-fied, left the city.—Carocci. Through several centuries the bridge carried numer-ous little houses built on its piers. These includedsix little chapels, three small convents, and severalpicturesque birdcage-like houses, in one of which livedBenedetto Menzini, a satirical poet of much reputa-tion in the seventeenth century. In one of the con- 6 In Florence and House-Hunting vents were confined for education, from choice orpolitical motives, princesses of some great Italianfamilies. Among them were the celebrated CaterinaSforza, who died there, Caterina and Eleonora Cybodi Messa, Lelia Orsini di Pitigliano, and the unfortu-nate Camilla Martelli, wife of Cosimo I dei times our way was across crowded, fascinat-ing Ponte Vecchio. It was on this bridge that Cosimo. Other times our way was across crowded, fascinating PonteVecchio. dei Medici found Camilla Martelli, his unfortunatewife, who soon got shut up in the convent on alleGrazie. And it was at the south end that Ariostolived for half a century in the Hospice of the Knightsof Malta. And there occurred the murder of youngBuondelmonte, that set off the long cruel struggleof the Whites and the Blacks. But it will be Ponte Vecchios interest of to-daythat will overpower most of us; the solid rows oneither side, except for a short way in the middle, oflittle houses in which the Florentine goldsmiths andjewel workers, disciples of Cellini, contrive and dis- In Florence and House-Hunting 7 play their wares. The fascination of those littleshops; the seizing scenery of those windows; theenticing ways of these politest of present-day Floren-tines ! There is a current rumor that wherever inFlorence you may get false wares under fair names
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