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Blooming Florence: What to Do in the City in Spring

How to get there

Florence has its own airport, Aeroporto Amerigo Vespucci, serviced by flights from Alitalia, Air France, Lufthansa, and other airlines — so there are plenty of options.

If you want to fly without connections, then you can always take a flight to Milan. Upon exiting Milan Airport, take the train to Milano Centrale station. The journey will cost from €4-13 and take around one hour. After that, buy a ticket to the station called Firenze S.Maria Novella. It will cost around €25-50 and take 1.5 hours. You can buy train tickets from the Trenitalia website.

There is another way to get there, and the cheapest but least comfortable method. From Milan station, take the underground to Central FS station at the cost of €2 and from there to Milano San Donato station. The bus station is right next to it, and there you can hop on a night bus for €19 that will take you to Florence in 3.5 hours.

The best time to go

It’s best to visit Florence in the spring — it’s already 16 degrees in central Italy in March. Winter is a

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Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy 9780300151787

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Italy’s Ambivalent Modernity
Part I: Genus Italicum
1. Did Italian Romanticism Exist?
2. Italy without Italians: Goethe, Staël, and Foscolo
3. The Death of Italy and Birth of European Romanticism
Part II: Heirs of a Dark Wood
Prologue
4. Dante and Autobiography in the Age of Voltaire
5. Alfieri’s Prince, Dante, and the Romantic Self
6. Wordsworth, Dante, and British Romantic Identity
Part III: Corpus Italicum
7. Italy as Woman and Wound, Dante to Leopardi
8. The Body of Parini
Epilogue: Italy’s Broken Heart
Notes
Index

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Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

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JOSEPH LUZZI

Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy

Yale University Press New Haven & London

Published with assistance from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund. Copyright ∫ 2008 by Joseph Luzzi. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107

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Italy

LOCATION, SIZE, AND EXTENT
TOPOGRAPHY
CLIMATE
FLORA AND FAUNA
ENVIRONMENT
POPULATION
MIGRATION
ETHNIC GROUPS
LANGUAGES
RELIGIONS
TRANSPORTATION
HISTORY
GOVERNMENT
POLITICAL PARTIES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
JUDICIAL SYSTEM
ARMED FORCES
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
ECONOMY
INCOME
LABOR
AGRICULTURE
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
FISHING
FORESTRY
MINING
ENERGY AND POWER
INDUSTRY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DOMESTIC TRADE
FOREIGN TRADE
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS
BANKING AND SECURITIES
INSURANCE
PUBLIC FINANCE
TAXATION
CUSTOMS AND DUTIES
FOREIGN INVESTMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH
HOUSING
EDUCATION
LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
MEDIA
ORGANIZATIONS
TOURISM, TRAVEL, AND RECREATION
FAMOUS ITALIANS
DEPENDENCIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Italian Republic

Repubblica Italiana

CAPITAL:Rome (Roma)

FLAG: The national flag is a tricolor of green, white, and red vertical stripes.

ANTHEM:Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy).

MONETARY UNIT: The euro replaced the lira as the official currency in 2002. The euro is divided into 100 cents. There are coins in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 cents and 1 eur