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| 1497 |
| | Savonarola, in the carnival before Lent, urges the people of Florence to throw playing cards and lewd images on a great bonfire of vanities | |
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| 1498 |
| | The Florentine mob, weary of puritanism, attacks the convent of San Marco and drags Savonarola away to be hanged and burnt | |
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| 1501 |
| | Michelangelo begins work in Florence on a tall thin slab of marble, which he transforms into David | |
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| 1571 |
| | Roberto di Ridolfi, a Florentine banker, coordinates a scheme to win the English throne for Mary Queen of Scots | |
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| c. 1575 |
| | Soft-paste porcelain, in imitation of true porcelain from China, is successfully created for the Medici in Florence | |
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| 1597 |
| | Dafne is performed in Florence, becoming the first example of a new art form - opera | |
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| 1698 |
| | A maker of harpsichords in Florence, Bartolomeo Cristofori, develops the piano ('soft') and forte ('loud') feature which leads to the piano | |
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| 1737 |
| | Florence loses her independence when the last Medici duke of Tuscany dies | |
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| 1820 |
| | English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence | |
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| 1846 |
| | After marrying secretly, the English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett go abroad to live in Florence | |
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