This Florentine, best known for his political and philosophical writings, was also a comedic playwright.
Like that other great Florentine family, the Medicis, the Guccis produced great beauty and great soap opera.
He said Florentine had "established its independence in the making of the film" and may claim the privilege.
Ms. Florentine advises employers to screen job seekers based partly on their voices.
Duccio trained alongside his Florentine contemporary, Giotto, in the workshop of Cimabue, the most famous Italian painter of his time.
Greens say that one of the latest victims last month was the world's biggest flowering hardwood tree in Tasmania's Florentine Valley.
The teacher was Mr. Zuberti, a stuck-up Florentine or Genoese -- from up North somewhere, where they thought Sicilians were scum.
The sect has had a tense relationship with Burundi's government since its formation, says Florentine Kwizera of the BBC's Great Lakes Service.
In said "chalet, " celebrities could grab a bowl of Tomato Florentine, some TicTacs and a pair of sunglasses at a mini-Solstice boutique.
Close your eyes and you will be transported to a Florentine garden.
We can measure Benedetto da Maiano's preparatory terra-cotta bust of the tough-minded Florentine banker Filippo Strozzi against the finished marble version (both 1475).
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He says the documents also show that she was still a famous figure in Florentine society: the whole parish turned out for her funeral.
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, whose nickname means "the red-haired Florentine, " was born in 1494 in Florence, where he studied in Andrea del Sarto's studio.
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It was one of the first Cubist pictures printed in Italy in the Florentine journal La Voce, according the museum's overview of the collection.
Scoppio del Carro, Easter Sunday Exploding the cart, or "scoppio del carro, " at Easter is one of the oldest and most important Florentine traditions.
He took the competitive, empirical drive with which Florentine painters had been looking at the world and used it to look at the night sky.
Ellis rejected arguments by the city that Florentine Films and filmmakers Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns were not independent journalists entitled to reporter's privilege.
The "technically challenging and rarely performed opera", which is based loosely on the life of the Florentine sculptor of the title, will be conducted by Edward Gardner.
Among the most notable Italian artists in the show, Michele Gordigiani was one of Fabbri's Florentine teachers, and the official portrait painter of the House of Savoy.
There are Il Paprio boutiques around the world, but the Florentine flagship is the place to pick up a souvenir that far outclasses the tourist postcards at the Porto Vecchio.
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That took place some years after her death when France's Henry IV ordered them for his wife, Maria de' Medici, Caterina's distant cousin who was to become the last Florentine queen of France.
You had only to study the previous two centuries of Florentine drawing, from the rocky pillars of Masaccio to the twisting perfection of Michelangelo, to see how knowledge grew through a contest in observation.
Humanist writers and philosophers of the era touted the prosperous Florentine Republic, with its ruling signoria council and trade guilds, as heir to the ideal classical civilizations of Athens and Rome, spurring civic pride.
The 15th-century Florentine Leon Battista Alberti was a ridiculously gifted painter, composer, poet and philosopher--not to mention the author of the first scientific analysis of perspective, a treatise on the housefly and a eulogy for his dog.
In honoring illustrious figures of Italian culture and politics, as well as the Florentine banking families whose names still grace the chapels they paid to decorate, Santa Croce ("Holy Cross") embraces and claims them as its own.
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Gordigiani's beautiful "Portrait of the Marchesa Maria Luisa Ginora Lisci" (1884) shows the aristocratic Florentine in the couture finery and fake ringlets for which she was famous, and his smiling daughter "Giulietta as a Young Girl" (circa 1887) is a beguiling charmer.
In the background of the exhibition are the Medici, the wool-traders turned bankers who held sway over the Florentine republic in its golden age under Lorenzo the Magnificent, and who produced popes and queens and Tuscan grand dukes until the last of the dynasty died in 1737.
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