Talk:History of Florence

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The Russian wikipedia page Florentine Republic is a featured article and might bear study/imitation. Twospoonfuls 20:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Florentine School
I looked for somewhere to place a link to this needy stub, but couldn't find one. Can someone who knows put a line in somewhere. Thank you.--SmallPotatoes 19:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Moved this from article space to talk
The History of Florence
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Timeline of Florence
What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content! Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 07:54, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

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Campanile photo
I think the Campanile photo should be deleted. Not that attractive/dramatic in this photo and the snow more of a distraction than illuminating. Student7 (talk) 16:05, 16 February 2018 (UTC) Student7 (talk) 16:05, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Villani's history
It seems to me that the paragraph on Villani's history is more germane to Villani than to Florence. It should be in his bio, not this article. We either accept his history or we don't. Not really a topic for expansion here. Non-WP:TOPIC. Student7 (talk) 17:28, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Classical Florence
I get that this is a translation of the Italian, but perhaps no one read the Italian carefully.

Everyone seems to agree that the Romans founded Florence in 59 BCE, at least that seems to be well documented by written records. But a bridge across the Arno constructed in 123 BCE? While possible this seems unlikely and I am not aware documentation to support this. It seems more likely that there might have been a bridge built by the Romans in 123 CE, when there is evidence of other construction in Florence.

AkilinaL (talk) 12:50, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Corrected. Ikjbagl (talk) 23:03, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

No mention of Napoleon in Florence?
History skips from the installation of Francis Stephen to Florence becoming capital of Italy. AkilinaL (talk) 12:09, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Another error, this time in the 20th century
The German officer in charge of the demolitions, Gerhard Wolf, ordered that the Ponte Vecchio was to be spared. Before the war, Wolf had been a student in the city, and his decision has been honored with a memorial plaque on the bridge.

Gerhard Wolf was not the German officer in charge of domolitions. Gerhard Wolf was the German consul in Florence. I don't know if he was a student in the city prior to the war, but he was definitely not a military person.

It seems that Gerhard Wolf tried to get Florence declared an open city, which would have enabled it to avoid open fighting. In this attempt he contacted the German Ambassador to Italy, Rudolf Rahn who raised the issue with Hitler. Reportedly Hitler, who had positive memories of his visit to Florence, told Rahn in November 1943 that “Florence is too beautiful a city to be destroyed. Do what you can to protect it. You have my permission and assistance.” Some claim that as a result of this order, the Ponte Vecchio was spared when the Nazi forces were commanded to destroy all the bridges in Florence in their attempts to slow down the Allied forces in 1944.

While there is a legend that an Italian goldsmith cut the fuses to the mines that the Germans set, it was more likely that at the urging of Gerhard Wolf, the German consul in Florence at the time and Ambassador Rahn, and recognizing that Allied tanks could not easily traverse the narrow Ponte Vecchio without destroying it, the German commander in Italy, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring simply "forgot" to destroy the bridge and instead closed off the bridge by ordering the demolition of the guard towers and buildings on both the north and south sides of the Arno River.

In 1955, Wolf, who also rescued political prisoners and saved Jews from persecution, was made an honorary citizen of the city and in 2007, a marble plaque was unveiled in his honor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AkilinaL (talk • contribs) 13:19, 8 July 2020 (UTC)