Florentine palaces & their stories

Chapter 81: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A room-by-room, façade-by-façade survey of Florence’s principal palaces that combines architectural description with the genealogies, anecdotes, and historical events tied to each house. Entries describe towers, courtyards, doorways, and decorative programs while noting artists, commissions, restorations, and alterations; many chapters situate buildings within civic and familial rivalries that shaped the city. Illustrated plates and guidebook-style notes support archival detail and travelerly observation, producing a cumulative portrait of urban development, stylistic change, and the social networks embedded in Florence’s built heritage.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Spelling and accents in Italian words follow the way the original book was printed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, but several remain unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.