A Traveler’s Guide to it’s Gems & Giants
Visit Florence Differently – through the fun backstories of the people that made that city. Fast, Fun & Smart:
– The Pirate Pope
– Execution of a Mad Monk
– Punching Michelangelo
– Where the Bodies are Buried
– da Vinci’s Secret Woman
– Skull Worship
– The REAL Bonfire of the Vanities
– Drunken Bacchus
– the Plague Doctor
– Kidnapped into Slavery
– Adoration of Botticelli
– Hide Me, Please!
– Stripping Dante
– Is Machiavelli Misunderstood?
– Her Royally Embarrassed Highness
– Stairway to Hell
and many more tales.
Patty Civalleri, a professional photographer, shows you where to go and/or climb to take the same fantastic photos that are all throughout the book.
BONUS:
Buy this book and get a FREE Gift. Choose either a “FLORENCE Game Pack” or a “FLORENCE Phone App” (avail February 2017.) Both items were designed to ‘pair’ beautifully with this book.
Microcontent for today’s busy traveler:
– Trivia – Backstories – Did-you-knows – Visually Rich: over 450 images!
This book has no restaurants or bars, no metro schedules or 3-days-in-Florence plans. It has what the others lack: the backstories of those famous guys from Florence that made the city look the way it does: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Donatello, Dante, Machiavelli, Raphael, Galileo, the Medici family, and many more. (Note: Did you know that most of these guys actually knew each other?!?)
Think: People Magazine of the Renaissance.
FLORENCE Gems & Giants is the PERFECT Companion to your favorite Florence City Guidebook.
