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the city that decided the medieval world needed better paintings and invented the individual to sign them.
means a city in central italy, cradle of the renaissance, where art, banking, and ego mutually funded each other into masterpieces.
from founded by julius caesar around 59 bc as a veteran colony, florentia, meaning flourishing — a name it took a thousand years to earn.
medici moneyone banking family bankrolled michelangelo, botticelli, and galileo
dome firstbrunelleschi built it without knowing how to finish it
currency powerthe florin was europe's dollar for two centuries
exiled geniusdante wrote the inferno after florence banished him