History Firenze

Important Tuscan characters
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  TUSCAN CHARACTERSDante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio, lived in the fourteenth century, are justly considered the fathers of the Italian language. In the same century, the Supreme renewed the Giotto painting of him we are immortal masterpieces in Assisi, Florence, Padua.Like Leonardo, Michelangelo, the other Tuscan, who was a ...

Territory, population and history of Tuscany
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The Tuscan landscape is varied and picturesque, green Apennines forests, down rivers, irrigating the fertile and populous valleys. At the center rise the hills of Chianti and the Metalliferous, smiling vineyards and cypress trees. Along the coast, flanked by majestic pine forests, lies the plain of the Maremma. On the ...

Tuscany
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The Etruscans were established in Tuscany at the beginning of the 1st millennium. It was the first population to have political, civil and economic structures and organization. Its cultural influence is still visible. No other region in Europe can claim such long-lasting cities such as Chiusi, Volterra, Cortona, Arezzo, Fiesole, ...