HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF SAN GIOVANNI ITALIA

Illustration from Villani's Nuova Cronica, showing Totila razing the partitions of Florence during the 6th century, leaving a prior Baptistery intact It was at the time believed that the Baptistery was initially a Roman temple committed to Mars,[six] the tutelary god on the old Florence. The chronicler Giovanni Villani reported this medieval Floren