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Title: Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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tic task he was already (since1296) engaged in carrying out his design for a new Duomo. According to old chroniclers the Cathedral of Florence inthe time of St. Ambrose and S. Zenobius (d. 424) was the littlechurch of San Salvatore, remnants of the f agade of which maystill be seen in the small Piazza dell Olio. When by theprayers of Zenobius and the army of Stilicho the city wassaved from Radegast and his barbarian hordes, a church wasdedicated to the martyr Sta Reparata, on whose feast-daythe event took place. Many centuries later (1128) this churchwas made the Cathedral, and it was on the site of this demolished 1 Vasari calls him son of I^apo, who, he says, was a German. This seemsindubitably one of Vasaris many blunders. He is rather fond of attributingarchitectural works to nameless Tedeschi (Germans). * Still recognizable in the Vicolo dei Cerchi, to north of the great Piazza.Dante must have been one of the first Priori who used the new palace, for itwas first ready in 1299.196
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