The reverse side of medieval Florence

Florence, how many in this word ... The history of the city is multifaceted, rich in events, interesting, exciting and tragic in places. This daughter of the Roman Empire gave the whole world one of the best periods in the history of art - the Renaissance. But not everything was so smooth, and Florence knows how to cultivate the beautiful on a seemingly most unfavorable basis.
This book is naked that is hidden behind beautiful frescoes in family chapels, luxurious chivalrous tournaments, facades of palaces and sculptures, neatly sampled the “history of the disease” of the medieval society and its most unpleasant, and in places the bad -smelling corners. It shows not always satisfied ambitions of the creators of the Renaissance and is affected by the beginning of the crisis of the 16th century, which split Europe into Catholics and Protestants. All this journey was conceived by the author not in order to sprinkle the salt on the wound, show the vices of the great creators, to ridicule or condemn Florence, and in order to show that nothing happens without prerequisites, and the Renaissance era was not an exception, it led to a complex A mechanism launched back in the Middle Ages.
Without walking along the dark streets of the history of Florence, it is impossible to fully enjoy dawn, which, in spite of everything, spreads with gold light along its tiled roofs.

The history of Florence is multifaceted, interesting, captivating and ... tragic. This daughter of the Roman Empire gave the whole world one of the best periods in the history of art - the Renaissance. But not everything was so smooth in those "dark" times, and Florence showed that she can cultivate the beautiful on the most unfavorable ground