Florence and Tuscany

The city of Florence, Fiorenza in Italian, was founded during the time of the Roman empire, but began to gain importance during the Renaissance as a place of trade.

Here are all of the links we've established for our project:

• Tour of Florence
• The Tuscan Region
• Daily Life
  • Family Life
  • Food
  • Guilds
  • Public Morals
• Music
  • Carnival Music
  • The Florentine Camerata
  • Giulio Caccini
  • Vincenzo Galilei
  • Jacopo Peri
• Architecture
  • Fillipo Brunelleschi
  • Country Homes and Villas
  • The Pallazzo Vecchio
• Machiavelli
• Michelangelo
• The Patronage System
• The Medici's
• The Church

The information on these pages was reseached by David Bynog, Alex Chapman, Jyoti Gupta, David Jessup, and Erin McCauley.