form its characteristic. Butthis Ilaussmannization revived, consciously or un-consciously, an old arrangement. The plan of Florencein 1427 shows a group of twenty unmistakable insulae,each of them about 11 acre in area, that is, very similarin size to the insulae of Turin. This group is boundedby… … Fig. 17 R. Florence ahout 1795, from L. Eardi. The chief streets which seem to have preserved Roman lines are marked in black. The original Roman town presumably extendedbeyond these narrow limits. But it is not easy to fixits area, nor are unmistakable insulae to be detectedoutside them. On the…
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