_Chronological Index of Architects, Sculptors and Painters_ 424 _General Index_ 430 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE _Pallas taming a Centaur (Photogravure)_[1] Frontispiece _Florence from the Boboli Gardens_ 3 _The Buondelmonte Tower_ 20 _The Palace of the Parte Guelfa_ 29 _Arms of Parte Guelfa_ 31 _Florentine Families_ 33 _Corso Donati's Tower_ 40 _Across the Ponte Vecchio_ 47 _Mercato Nuovo, the Flower Market_ 51 _The Campanile_ 63 _Cross of the Florentine People_ 70 _Florence in the Days of Lorenzo the Magnificent_ 80 _The Badia of Fiesole_ 83 "_In the Sculptor's Work-shop_" (_Nanni di Banco_) 97 _Arms of the Pazzi_ 110 _The Death of Savonarola_ 135 "_The Dawn_" (_Michelangelo_) 144 _The Palazzo Vecchio_ 147 _Looking through Vasari's Loggia, Uffizi_ 161 "_Venus_" (_Sandro Botticelli_) 178 _Orcagna's Tabernacle, Or San Michele_ 185 _Window of Or San Michele_ 191 _Tower of the Arte della Lana_ 201 _House of Dante_ 207 _Arms of the Sesto di San Piero_ 213 _Bargello Courtyard and Staircase_ 217 _Santa Croce_ 233 _Old Houses on the Arno_ 245 _The Baptistery_ 251 _The Bigallo_ 264 _Porta della Mandorla, Duomo_ 267 _Statue of Boniface VIII_ 270 _Arms of the Medici from the Badia at Fiesole_ 283 _Tomb of Giovanni and Piero dei Medici_ 288 _The Well of S. Marco_ 299 _The Cloister of the Innocenti_ 331 _A Florentine Suburb_ 337 _The Ponte Vecchio_ 343 _The Tower of S. Zanobi_ 347 _Arms of the Strozzi_ 353 _In the Green Cloisters, S. Maria Novella_ 357