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This thing arrived with a thud! It looks like a textbook in size, shape, and weight. Unlike a textbook, however, it doesn't actually include sources.

No, those little footnotes you see throughout are actually references to an index of architectural and cultural sites in Florence--which is cool, but what the heck? Why aren't you citing any sources?!

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There is a Bibliography and a traditional Index, but it's such an odd thing in something so textbook-y.

The book mostly gets the job--of giving this ignorant foreigner a crash course in Florentine history--done. Naturally, the Medicis and the Renaissance take up a major portion of the book, and dang if there aren't some eerie parallels to modern American society.

I was actually quite impressed with Florence's early government, which included short terms for representatives from guilds and actually required that their leaders come from outside the city (to put this all very vaguely becau