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 Detail of the “INOPPORTUNO’S” profile, or the chatterbox, by Michelangelo
Buonarroti.
A legend tell us that, when the artist was crossing Piazza Signoria, was often stopped by one boring
chatterbox.
A day, Buonarroti had with oneself his chisel and hammer, while he, bored, was listening the chatterbox, the artist carved the INOPPORTUNO’S profile kipping back his hands over one stone at the base of the Signoria
Palace.
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1345- same salaried workers in Florence, proclaim one of the first strike in
history.
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 The stone lion of Florence, named the MARZOCCO, is one of the oldest symbols of
Florence.
In the Romans times Marte or Mars has been the symbol of the city, than, from the time of the Christian Florence, has been the lion to mean the force, the hardiness: the Marzocco, to derive from
Mars.
The Palazzo della Signoria given hospitality to a couple of real lions until the early
XVIIIC, the today Lions street. Donatello carved the Marzocco next to the emblem of
Florence, the red lily.
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The night of June 24, the SANT JOHN BAPTIST DAY, the patron of the city, the young girls would question destiny to find out if they were would get married before the end of the year. In order to find an answer, they had to drain fused iron into a pan filled of water. If the iron harden taking form of an animal or object, the girls would get married before the year was over.
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Nearby the massive door PORTA AL PRATO, part of the last XIII / XIVC city wall by Arnolfo di Cambio, there is the Serpe tower. The strange name seems to derive from the nick name of the captain of the guards called the Serpent.
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1906 April- last day of Buffalo’s Bill show at Campo di Marte in Florence
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