Florence Quote by Franco Cardini

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

— Henry James

“Meanwhile, Florence was increasingly becoming, for different reasons that not were not foreign to one another nor opposed – artistic and cultural on the…

— Franco Cardini

“The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer.”

— Ross King

“She was a full lipped and hipped italian tomato with Rome burning in her eyes. She had the look of a carnival in Rio,…

— Richard S. Prather

“The beauty of Florence made up for many ugly things he saw in his work. (Commissario Garini's view of Florence,Italy.)”

— Beate Boeker

“Italy still has a provincial sophistication that comes from its long history as a collection of city states. That, combined with a hot climate,…

— Roger Allam

“I’ve always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.”

— Junot Díaz

“The Florentine public didn’t care. When the full-sized preparatory cartoons were displayed, the entire city went into ecstasy over both works. This was the…

— Benjamin Blech

“But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her shadow. Soon…

— E.M. Forster

“Florence suspected that there was something profoundly wrong with her, that she had always been different, and that at last she was about to…

— Ian McEwan

“the long sorrow of the color red.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.”

— Walter Shaw Sparrow