Florence Stories

PREFACE
DANTE ALIGHIERI
From The Divine Comedy
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
From The Decameron
ANTONIO MANETTI
The Fat Woodworker
BENEDETTO DEI
The Prosperity of Florence
MARSILIO FICINO
Letters
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI
A Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici
GIORGIO VASARI
From The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters,
Sculptors, and Architects
BENVENUTO CELLINI
From The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
TOBIAS SMOLLETT
From Travels Through France and Italy
STENDHAL
From Rome, Naples and Florence
GEORGE ELIOT
From Romola
MARK TWAIN
Travelogues
HENRY JAMES
From The Diary of a Man ofFifty
RAINER MARIA RILKE
From Diaries of a Young Poet
E. M. FORSTER
From A Room with a View
D. H. LAWRENCE
From Aarons Rod
D. H. LAWRENCE
Fireworks in Florence
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
From Up at the Villa
VASCO PRATOLINI
From Family Chronicle
CURZIO MALAPARTE
From The Skin
CURZIO MALAPARTE
From Those Cursed Tuscans
MARY MCCARTHY
From The Stones of Florence
IRIS ORIGO
Childhood at Fiesole
PENELOPE FITZGERALD
From Innocence
SALMAN RUSHDIE
From The Enchantress of Florence
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS