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  2. History of Florence - Wikipedia

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    Brucker, Gene A. Renaissance Florence (2nd ed. 1983) Cochrane, Eric. Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes (1976) Crum, Roger J. and John T. Paoletti. Renaissance Florence: A Social History (2008) excerpt and text search; Goldthwaite, Richard A.

  3. Timeline of Florence - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Florence, Tuscany, Italy. ... Italian Renaissance (14th–16th c.) Italian Wars (1494–1559)

  4. Historical urban community sizes - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... City Location 3700 BC 3400 BC 3100 BC ... Renaissance: 1400–1599 City 1400 1450 1500 1550 1575 Aachen:

  5. Florence - Wikipedia

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    The city is one of the best preserved Renaissance centres of art and architecture in the world and has a high concentration of art, architecture and culture. [108] In the ranking list of the 15 most visited Italian art museums, ⅔ are represented by Florentine museums. [ 109 ]

  6. Italian Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    Rome was a city of ancient ruins, and the Papal States were loosely administered, ... to reduce the importance of the Renaissance in human history.

  7. Italian city-states - Wikipedia

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    The Italian city states were also highly numerate, given the importance of the new forms of bookkeeping that were essential to the trading and mercantile basis of society. Some of the most widely circulating books, such as the Liber Abaci by Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa, included applications of mathematics and arithmetic to business practice [ 7 ...

  8. Ideal city - Wikipedia

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    Zamość in the 17th century. The Renaissance concept of an Ideal town developed by Italian polymath Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), author of ten books of treatises on modern architecture titled De re aedificatoria written about 1450 with additions made until the time of his death in 1472, concerned the planning and building of an entire town as opposed to individual edifices for private ...

  9. Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Renaissance (UK: / r ɪ ˈ n eɪ s ən s / rin-AY-sənss, US: / ˈ r ɛ n ə s ɑː n s / ⓘ REN-ə-sahnss) [1] [2] [a] is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.