The play's plot derives from the historical feud of the Bianchi and Neri factions in late medieval Florence.

It has a polygonal plan and was the headquarters and residence of the Alberti, one of the most numerous and powerful families in the medieval Florence.

A corporate republic is a theoretical form of government occasionally hypothesized in works of science fiction, though some historical nations such as medieval Florence might be said to have been governed as corporate republics.

Gonfalone was originally the name given to a neighbourhood meeting in medieval Florence, each neighbourhood having its own flag and coat of arms, leading to the word Gonfalone eventually becoming associated with the flag.

OK, the Medicis were immensely powerful and under their influence medieval Florence became the cultural centre of Europe.

His son Puccio Pucci was a merchant who became rich thanks to trade and financial activities in medieval Florence.

Mr. Delavan also takes the title role in the third work, "Gianni Schicchi," Puccini's only comedy, here amusingly zapped from medieval Florence to a vaguely contemporary Art Deco setting.

The Signoria was the government of medieval and renaissance Florence.

From the Mercato Nuovo to Santa Maria Novella Start out from the center, the heart of medieval Florence, on the street named after the drapers' guild, the Via Calimala.

The abbey was founded as a Benedictine institution in 978 by Willa, Countess of Tuscany, in commemoration of her late husband Hubert, and was one of the chief buildings of medieval Florence.