Florentine Characters

Who would have thought that the boy born in the small village of Vinci, Tuscany, in 1452 by an unmarried peasant called Caterina would become

When Cosimo I (not to be confused with Cosimo the Elder) was born in 1519 the Medici had already run Florence for quite a while.

One of the most exciting things to do in Florence is to admire the iconic artworks from the Renaissance. Sandro Botticelli’s masterpieces “the Birth of