Such stones as are placed one upon the other in the Pitti and the Strozzi and the Riccardi nothing can displace.

It is an odd thought that several Florentine palaces and villas built before Columbus sailed for America are now occupied by rich Americans, some of them draw possibly much of their income from the manufacture of steel girders for sky-scrapers.

These ancient streets with their stern and sombre palaces specially touched the imagination of Dickens when he was in Florence in 1844, but in his "Pictures from Italy" he gave the city only fugitive mention.

The old prison, which then adjoined the Palazzo Vecchio, and in which the prisoners could be seen, also moved him.
The Borgo degli Albizzi, as I have said, is crowded with Palazzi.No.

24--and there is something very incongruous in palaces having numbers at all--is memorable in history as being one of the homes of the Pazzi family who organized the conspiracy against the Medici in 1478, as I have related in the second chapter, and failed so completely.