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““On August 19, 1418, a competition was announced in Florence, where the city's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, had been under construction for more than a century””

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

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