CHAPTER XIII

_Conclusion_ 409

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_Genealogical Table of the Medici_ 423

_Chronological Index of Architects, Sculptors and Painters_ 424

_General Index_ 430

ILLUSTRATIONS

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_Pallas taming a Centaur (Photogravure)_[1] Frontispiece

_Florence from the Boboli Gardens_ 3

_The Buondelmonte Tower_ 20

_The Palace of the Parte Guelfa_ 29

_Arms of Parte Guelfa_ 31

_Florentine Families_ 33

_Corso Donati's Tower_ 40

_Across the Ponte Vecchio_ 47

_Mercato Nuovo, the Flower Market_ 51

_The Campanile_ 63

_Cross of the Florentine People_ 70

_Florence in the Days of Lorenzo the Magnificent_ 80

_The Badia of Fiesole_ 83

"_In the Sculptor's Work-shop_" (_Nanni di Banco_) 97

_Arms of the Pazzi_ 110

_The Death of Savonarola_ 135

"_The Dawn_" (_Michelangelo_) 144

_The Palazzo Vecchio_ 147

_Looking through Vasari's Loggia, Uffizi_ 161

"_Venus_" (_Sandro Botticelli_) 178

_Orcagna's Tabernacle, Or San Michele_ 185

_Window of Or San Michele_ 191

_Tower of the Arte della Lana_ 201

_House of Dante_ 207

_Arms of the Sesto di San Piero_ 213

_Bargello Courtyard and Staircase_ 217

_Santa Croce_ 233

_Old Houses on the Arno_ 245

_The Baptistery_ 251

_The Bigallo_ 264

_Porta della Mandorla, Duomo_ 267

_Statue of Boniface VIII_ 270

_Arms of the Medici from the Badia at Fiesole_ 283

_Tomb of Giovanni and Piero dei Medici_ 288

_The Well of S. Marco_ 299

_The Cloister of the Innocenti_ 331

_A Florentine Suburb_ 337

_The Ponte Vecchio_ 343

_The Tower of S. Zanobi_ 347

_Arms of the Strozzi_ 353

_In the Green Cloisters, S. Maria Novella_ 357

_In the Boboli Gardens_ 374

_The Fortifications of Michelangelo_ 399

_Porta San Giorgio_ 403

_Map of Florence facing_ 422

[1] "_The Frontispiece and the Illustrations facing pages 97, 135, 144, 178 and 288 are reproduced, by permission, from photographs by Messrs Alinari of Florence._"

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