Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp), 1870-1948 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 45
clared the capital of UnitedItaly and the residence and court of the reigning Houseof Savoy. A number of suburbs were now built, and thefine old walls of Arnolfo were levelled to the ground byway of improving the city in size and appearance. Thehonour of being the capital of Italy was, however, of… … GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF FLORENCE FLORENCE—Fiorenza la Bella, la bellissima efamo-sissima figlia di Roma—now the chief town of theprovince of the same name in the modern Kingdom ofItaly, the see of an archbishop and the head-quarters ofthe Sixth Italian Army Corps, has a population of about250,000.…
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