Florence

Maps on our site:

• 1493, Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum, LXXXVII
  
  
• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, 192-193
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-44
  
  
• the 1860's, Lloyd Austriaco
  
  

Find more maps:

• The Della Catena Map of Florence, ca. 1471-82.
  Florentine Renaissance Resources, Online Catasto of 1427
  The Brown University Scholarly Technology Group
  
  
• Florence in 1913
  Baedeker's Northern Italy Handbook For Travellers by Karl Baedeker,
  Fourteenth Remodelled Edition 1913.
  The University of Texas at Austin, Map Collection

Was Roman military center at head of navigation on Arno river & on Cassian Way; escaped capture by Goths 5th cen.; was thriving center by 12th cen.; torn by medieval Guelph/Ghibelline civil strife; was an early republic; ruled by Medici family from 1434.

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