A second individual of unusually acute insight was Niccolò Machiavelli, whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimization of political expediency and even malpractice.

After doubling during the 19th century, Florence's population was to triple in the 20th, resulting from growth in tourism, trade, financial services and industry.

Florence's father was incensed by his daughter's decision to marry Harding, prohibited his wife from attending the wedding ( she sneaked in long enough to see the vows exchanged ) and refused to speak to his daughter or son-in-law for eight years.

Florence's sister, Louisa, married Joseph's brother, Arthur Chamberlain ; their granddaughter was the author Elizabeth Longford and their great-granddaughter is the Labour politician Harriet Harman.

Fanny's father ( Florence's maternal grandfather ) was the abolitionist and Unitarian William Smith.

* Yamagata, Japan-Yamagata-shi was established in 2003 by the merger of Ijira ( Florence's former sister-city ), Takatomi, and Miyama.

Rock Hill ’ s size and textile history was similar to Florence's when the Civitas was created.

First, there is no stylistic break in the Chronicon after Florence's death, which gives the impression that a single author was responsible for the entire work.

He was one of the many agents sent out by Florence's ruler, Cosimo de ' Medici, to scour European monasteries for lost ancient writings.

Florence's surname was changed at age four to her mother's stage name.

This supposed legal deposition was dated five days before Florence's death.

Andrea de ' Pazzi was also the patron of the chapter house for the Franciscan community at Florence's Santa Croce church, often known as the Pazzi Chapel.

With no help coming from Florence's traditional allies in Bologna and Milan, Lorenzo was faced with dire prospects and adopted an unorthodox course of action: he sailed to Naples and put himself in the hands of Don Ferrante ( the king ), in whose custody he remained for three months.

Between 1380 and 1404 it was converted into a church used as the chapel of Florence's powerful craft and trade guilds.

The subject was not finally determined until after it had been set up in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence's Piazza della Signoria.

Desiderio matriculated into Florence's Guild of Stone and Woodworkers in 1453 and shortly thereafter already was supplying cherub head medallions for the frieze running across the front of the Pazzi Chapel in the second cloisteryard of the Basilica of Santa Croce.

The show was a combination of both the Broadway and London versions, mostly following the London version with regard to music but the Broadway version in terms of the plot, though the Broadway subplot with Florence's father is absent ; also, Act 1 takes place in Merano and Act 2 takes place in Bangkok, like in the London version.

It was widely used beyond Florence's borders due to its reliable, fixed gold content and soon became one of the common currencies of Europe and the Near East.

The council was a huge boost to Florence's international prestige.

According to Giorgio Vasari, he was considered Giotto's most talented pupil: in 1347 he is placed at the top in a list of Florence's most renowned painters.

Another project was the triumphal arch wall tomb erected in Florence's church of Santa Croce for the historian and humanist scholar Leonardo Bruni ( d. 1444 ), who had served as the State Chancellor of Florence.

") she asked her mother-in-law if she ever dealt with such absurdity, causing Florence to remark, " Well, I'm sure that he has been around at least since I was a little girl ," in which there is a flashback to Florence's childhood with her father demanding to know, " Who scratched my new Glenn Miller record ?," and " Not Me " smugly standing by.

He went with the Florentine army to fight against Castruccio Castracani, lord of Lucca, and was present at Altopascio during Florence's defeat.

Florence's life changed dramatically when he decided to respond to a newspaper advertisement put by Baron von Langsdorff ( 1773 – 1852 ), the consul general of the Russian Empire in Brazil, a German-born physician and naturalist who was organizing on behalf of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences a scientific expedition to the Amazon.

It transpired that he had mistaken one of Florence's feet, emerging from the covers at the foot of her bed, for an antler.

As in the London version, in this version Anatoly defects from the Soviet Union, wins the match, then decides to return to the Soviet Union at the end, leading to the possibility that Florence's father, if he is still alive, will be released from prison.

The buildings from the era serve as Florence's best example of Gothic Architecture.

The couple did not have children of their own ; however, Florence's son lived with them from time to time.

Her mother always favored Florence's younger brother Gabriel, causing Florence to feel a yearning need to escape from her life.

Florence's spies kept a close watch over the mails and soon intercepted letters from the Patriarch to Niccolò Piccinino, who was currently ravaging Tuscany with his warband.

The synthesis of a unified Italian language was the main goal of Alessandro Manzoni, who advocated building a national language derived mainly from Florence's vernacular.

The subject was loosely derived from the Carolingian epic tradition, but Pulci drew many characters and motives also from the popular poems usually sung by storytellers in Florence's piazzas and developed a rich series of comic and parodistic episodes.

And Florence's father is very far from marrying Aunt Agatha.

Influenced by his friendship in the 1840s with Andrea Maffei, a poet and man of letters who had suggested both Schiller's Die Räuber ( The Robbers ) and Shakespeare's Macbeth as suitable subjects for operas, Giuseppe Verdi started writing the music for Macbeth in 1846 after receiving a commission from Florence's Teatro della Pergola and an assurance that certain singers would be available, especially the baritone, Felice Varesi.

In 1919, Howard Edward Butt, Florence's youngest son, took over the store upon his return from World War I.

Following this change the mortality rates fell from 40 % to 2 %, and were instrumental in overcoming the resistance of the British doctors and officers to Florence's procedures.

In his decade of impoverishment, supportive commissions came from foreigners ; the funeral monument to Princess Sofia Zamoyski Czartoriski ( died 1837 ) in Santa Croce, Florence's Westminster Abbey, is an anti-classical statement for naturalism.

Image: Tuggeranong Library Duomo. jpg | Tuggeranong Library, which is suggested by traveled ones as drawing architectural influence from Florence's Duomo roof structure, is seen here dominating the foreshore vista.

Dante studied under Florence's Chancellor Brunetto Latini, who was himself away from the battle scene, on embassy in Castile seeking help for Guelph Florence from Alfonso X el Sabio.

Thus, in Botticelli's interpretation, Pankaspe ( the ancient living prototype of Simonetta ), the mistress of Alexander the Great ( the Laurentian predecessor ), becomes the lovely model for the lost Venus executed by the legendary Apelles ( reborn through the recreative talents of Botticelli ), which ended up in Rome, installed by Emperor Augustus in the temple dedicated to Florence's supposed founder Julius Caesar.

Florence's McFarland Park is a resting point for riders in the annual Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle Ride which terminates in nearby Waterloo.

One possibility if ultimately unverifiable is that Florence's contribution lay in assembling the source materials which John consulted for the entries covering the period between the 9th and 11th century.

He was familiar with early Humanist-inspired sculptural works such as Donatello's bronze David, and had himself responded by carving the enormous nude marble David which was placed in the piazza near the Palazzo Vecchio, the home of Florence's council.

They were among the most radical of the lower-class groups, vegetable sellers and crockery vendors and the like, and resented the controlling power that was centred in the Arte della Lana, the textile-manufacturing establishment which guided the economic engine of Florence's prosperity, and was supported by the other major Guilds of Florence, the Arti maggiori.

At the opening of the first-occurring story, " Jeeves Takes Charge ", Bertie is ( unusually for him, as later stories show ) quite enthusiastic about this state of affairs, citing Florence's " wonderful profile ," repeatedly, and even undertaking to read a book titled " Types of Ethical Theory ," which she has foisted upon him.

Upon his father's death in 1581, MacCarthy inherited substantial property but was not the prince's tanist ( second in command and usually successor to the head ), and therefore did not assume his father's title, which went to Florence's uncle, Owen MacCarthy Reagh, 12th Prince of Carbery.

Upon arriving at Easeby, Oakshott, Willoughby's butler, shows Bertie directly into Lady Florence's room, where she explains the dire situation in which she has found herself.

Florence's art has been exhibited widely and published in magazines, newspapers, and in book illustrations, and is owned by private and public collections in Germany, Japan and throughout the United States, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Peabody Conservatory, and the Baltimore NAACP, which owns an assemblage she created in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.