Picture No | 10991342 |
Date | 1904 |
Description | Mercato Vecchio, Florence, Italy |
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A broad piazza, known to the elder Florentine writers as the Mercato Vecchio. This piazza, though the scene of a provision market from time immemorial, had not been shunned as a place of residence by Florentine wealth. In the early decades of the fifteenth century, the Medici and other powerful families had their houses there.
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Source | Sketches on the old road through France and Florence by A.H. Hallan Murray - opposite p264 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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