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A RING OF GOLD, A TREASURE HUNT

ANTHOLOGY OF HYPERTEXTED GUIDES TO FLORENCE

When Elizabeth Barrett Browning died at Florence in 1861, the Comune, her city government, and also at that time, capital of Italy, placed a plaque above the doorway of Casa Guidi, stating that she had made of her poetry a golden ring beyween Italy and England. The Comune also offered to raise and educate her son, Pen, as a Citizen of Italy. Her husband, Robert Browning, instead took twelve-year-old Pen immediately to England, and never returned to Florence. Pen, however, did return and would later have another plaque placed on Casa Guidi celebrating from his mother's poem the little child singing below Casa Guidi Windows, "Oh Bella Libertà, O Bella!". This anthology of hypertext web guides seeks to deepen the experiences in time and space for travellers to this city of Florence, whether in flesh and blood or virtually. Shakespeare spoke of Sermons in Stones. Florence's poets and artists created of her a new Jerusalem, a Vita nova, for you. And it is especially women who traced that liberation story.



Mapping Florence's Saints

Florence and the Seven Acts of Mercy
 
Dante's Florence in Hypertext

La Firenze di Dante ipertestuale in italiano

George Eliot's Romola as Guide to Florence

George Eliot, Romola

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Florence

Florence in Sepia

Joanna and Susan Horner, Walks in Florence

Augustus Hare, Florence

Jacques Augustine Galiffe, Florence, in Italy and its Inhabitants, etc., 1820

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Florence, in Notes in Italy

Virtual Guide to Florence's 'English Cemetery

Guida Virtuale al Cimitero degli Inglesi in italiano


Florence's Saints




1. Baptistery, John the Baptist, 2. Duomo, Santa Reparata, San Zenobio, Santa Maria del Fiore, Bigallo, Madonna della Misericordia, 3. San Lorenzo, San Zenobio, St Ambrose, Saint Augustine, San Lorenzo, Niccolò Stenone, 4. Santa Maria Novella, 5. Fortezza da Basso, Santa Umilta, 6. San Marco, Fra Angelico, Savonarola, Giorgio La Pira, 7. Santissima Annunziata, Sette Santi, Santa Giuliana Falconieri, 8. Hospital of the Innocenti, 9. English Cemetery, 10. Piazza Beccaria, 11. Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, Monna Tessa, Folco Portinari, Sara Parker Remond, 12. Santa Croce, 13. San Firenze, San Filippo Neri, 14. Badia, Torre della Castagna, Chiesa di San Martino, Dante House, 15. Orsanmichele, 16. Santa Trinità, Vallombrosan, San Giovanni Gualberti, Sant’Umilta, Ponte Vecchio -> Oltrarno, 17. Santa Felicita, Santa Felicita, Santa Perpetua, 18. Santo Spirito, Saint Augustine, Santa Monica, Martin Luther, 19. Carmine, Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi (Borgo Pinti, Santa Teresa del Bambno Gesù)
20. San Frediano d’Irlanda, Fioretta Mazzei, Paolo Coccheri, 21.  No 7 bus San Domenico, Fiesole, San Romolo, San Donato, by car Sasso, Santa Brigida d’Irlanda, 22.  No 10 bus San Martino a Mensola, Sant’Andrea d’Irlanda, 23.  No 12/13 bus Piazza Beccaria, San Miniato, 24.  No. 37 bus Certosa, Santa Brigida di Svezia, Bagni a Ripoli, Domenica del Paradiso, Via Laura, 25.  bus to Santa Brigida, then walk the pilgrim path up the mountain to Sasso
 
Florence and the Seven Acts of Mercy



The Ordering in Time
1/1. 1244, The Misericordia 2/2. 1288, Santa Maria Nuova Hospital and its Oblate 3/7. 1289, 1293, Orsanmichele 4/9. 1419, The Hospital of the Innocenti  5/6. 1442, The Buonuomini di San Martino  6/8. 1522, The Della Robbia Fountain  7/3 1786, Borgo La Croce and Piazza Beccaria  8/4. 1478, 1620, 1808, Montedomini  9/5. 1934, Giorgio La Pira's Mass for the Poor of the Republic of San Procolo 10. 1997, Progetto Agata Smeralda

The Ordering in Space
1. The Misericordia 2. Santa Maria Nuova Hospital and its Oblate 3. Borgo La Croce and Piazza Beccaria 4. Montedomini 5. Giorgio La Pira's Mass for the Poor in the Badia 6. The Buonuomini di San Martino 7. Orsanmichele 8. The Della Robbia Fountain 9. The Hospital of the Innocenti

Dante's Medieval Florence:


 
1. Santa Maria Novella 2. St Zenobius' Cross 3. Baptistery 4. Duomo  5. Orsanmichele tombs 6. Misericordia 7. Bigallo 8. Santa Maria Nuova Hospital 9. Piazza San Pietro Maggiore 10. Borgo degli Albizzi  13. Cavalcanti 14. Piazzetta Donati 15. Chiesa Santa Margherita 17. Portinari 20. Bargello  21. Badia  22. Torre della Castagna 24. San Martino 25. Dante House 29. Orsanmichele 38. Ponte Vecchio 39. Piazza Santa Felicita 40. Palazzo del Popolo


George Eliot's Renaissance Florence:


Augustus Hare, Florence

Map: 1 Dante House and Loggia dei Cerchi; 2 Mercato Vecchio and Corso dei Adimari to 3 Duomo and its Piazza; 4 Ponte Vecchio; 5 Oltrarno, Via dei Bardi; 6 Borgo Pinti and its Porta a' Pinti; 7 Palazzo della Signoria and its Piazza; 8 Badia fiorentina and Corso degli Albizzi  9 Piazza Ognissanti; 10 San Marco; 11 Santissima Annunziata; 12 Rucellai Gardens; 13 Via Valfonda; 14 Ponte Rubaconte and Piazza de' Mozzi; 15 Santa Croce and its Piazza; 16 Borgo and Porta La Croce; 17 Porta San Gallo ->Trespiano; 18 Impruneta->San Gaggio->Florence; 19 San Stefano; 20 Oltrarno, San Miniato; 21 Bargello; 22 Viareggio; 23 Oltrarno, Porta San Frediano; 24 Ponte alla Carrara; 25 Ponte Santa Trinità

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Victorian Florence:


Augustus Hare, Florence


1. Casa Guidi 2. Palazzo Pitti 3. San Miniato 4. Ponte Vecchio 5. Uffizi 6. Palazzo Vecchio 7. Bargello 8. Santa Croce 9. Duomo 10. Misricordia 11. Santa Maria Novella 12. Medici Chapel 13. San Lorenzo  14. Accademia di Belle Arti  15. Santissima Annunziata  16. English Cemetery 17. Bellosguardo

19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6.19-21 Dante Alighieri, Girolamo Savonarola, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Giorgio La Pira all saw Florence as potentially a new Jerusalem. It's not money, but knowledge, it's the Seven Acts of Mercy, that made her beautiful.




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