Florence

How To Use Florence In A Sentence

• For some 2,000 years the central bridge of Florence has crossed this narrow point in the Arno at least since 59 B.C. when Romans settled the untamed floodplain that became a colony called Florentia. Ponte Vecchio, a Bridge That Spans Centuries
• It followed as one consequence of these letters from Florence that Nora was debarred from the Italian scheme as a mode of passing her time till some house should be open for her reception. He Knew He Was Right
• I started him in the mortgage loan business when we got the Prudential Insurance Company account in 1919 and he was my subman down in Florence. Oral History Interview with Alester G. Furman Jr., January 6, 1976. Interview B-0019. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• He had begged Lorenzo to come to Fiesole, promising to explain once they were both in the house there together and away from the gossips in Florence. The Poet Prince
• The two other downstairs rooms, the breakfast room and the kitchen, were Florence's domain.
• And classical reminiscences have, even with him, a dull musty tinge which recalls the antiquarian in his Cambridge college-rooms rather than the visitor to Florence and Rome. Proserpine and Midas
• Florence, with it alchemically transforming art and catalysing capitalism. Times, Sunday Times
• As I'd grown older, I'd noticed that Florence had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling. TIME OF THE WOLF
• It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. A Room with a View
• The return of the popes to Rome after their exile in Avignon in the second decade of the century probably encouraged a new internationalism, as Dufay's career in Rome and his relations with Florence, Ferrara, and Rimini show.