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Financial irregularities forced the authorities in 1425, under
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Detached fresco fragments are conserved in the museum.
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208:. Scandicci: Tipografia Eurostampa.
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393:Museo Nazionale di San Marco
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728:S Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi
673:Oratory of S Thomas Aquinas
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713:S Giovannino dei Cavalieri
708:S Giovannino degli Scolopi
668:Oratory of Gesù Pellegrino
648:Battistero di San Giovanni
618:Bartolini Salimbeni Chapel
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248:43.7727472°N 11.2552556°E
1065:Orto Botanico di Firenze
885:National Central Library
420:Ospedale degli Innocenti
363:Loggia del Mercato Nuovo
141:The interior contains a
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854:Palazzo Medici Riccardi
663:Oratorio dei Vanchetoni
484:Studiolo of Francesco I
445:Palazzo Medici Riccardi
334:Galleria dell'Accademia
20:The Loggia del Bigallo-
850:Biblioteca Riccardiana
748:S Salvatore al Vescovo
698:S Frediano in Cestello
462:Museo delle Porcellane
253:43.7727472; 11.2552556
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1147:Events and traditions
987:Piazzale Michelangelo
972:Piazza della Signoria
738:S Martino del Vescovo
128:Filippo di Cristofano
46:Baptistry of Florence
36:, region of Tuscany,
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939:Teatro della Pergola
723:S Maria degli Angeli
653:Certosa del Galluzzo
469:Palazzo Spini Feroni
348:Garden of Archimedes
185:H. Saalman, page 17.
100:However, it was the
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1203:Loggias in Florence
1070:Parco delle Cascine
1060:Giardino delle Rose
901:Fountain of Neptune
865:Gabinetto Vieusseux
591:S Maria del Carmine
435:Palazzo Della Stufa
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1055:Giardino dell'Iris
1008:Via de' Tornabuoni
982:Piazza San Lorenzo
977:Piazza Santa Croce
906:Giotto's Campanile
880:Laurentian Library
834:Giotto's Campanile
763:S Stefano al Ponte
718:S Jacopo sopr'Arno
603:S Miniato al Monte
353:Loggia del Bigallo
224:Firenze e dintorni
130:, 1412, frame the
80:Saint Peter Martyr
26:Loggia del Bigallo
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545:Baroncelli Chapel
430:Palazzo Davanzati
175:Duomo of Florence
132:Madonna and Child
124:Mullioned windows
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688:Ss Apostoli
450:Magi Chapel
312:and palaces
310:, galleries
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110:bas-reliefs
76:del Bigallo
1197:Categories
1101:di Careggi
1096:La Petraia
1003:Via Cavour
693:S Felicita
683:S Ambrogio
658:Ognissanti
403:La Specola
329:Casa Guidi
136:Saint Lucy
74:or simply
28:is a late
1133:La Pietra
1118:Gamberaia
1024:Belvedere
894:Landmarks
829:dei Pulci
703:S Gaetano
613:S Trinita
608:S Spirito
557:S Lorenzo
528:Basilicas
115:Ecce Homo
1138:Rusciano
926:Theatres
635:Churches
319:Bargello
300:Florence
34:Florence
1123:I Tatti
996:Streets
954:Squares
843:Library
753:S Salvi
586:S Marco
540:S Croce
308:Museums
296:Tourism
226:, 109f.
217:Sources
120:oratory
58:loggias
52:History
1079:Villas
496:Uffizi
143:museum
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772:Other
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