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Start · Florence · 1478
The Assassination Plot Inside a CathedralRival bankers struck during Sunday Mass, but one Medici brother fought his way out alive.
same spot · Piazza della Signoria, Florence · 1497
The Preacher Who Burned Art And Then Burned HimselfThe friar who torched Florence's treasures in a pyramid of vanity ended up executed in the very same square.
390 m on · Florence · 1478
The Assassination Attempt During High MassIn front of ten thousand worshippers, the Pazzi conspirators drove their knives into a Medici at the altar.
550 m on · Florence, Tuscany · 1445
The Wheel Where Florence Left Its BabiesA rotating window in Florence let mothers leave a baby without being seen, from 1445 until 1875. Keepsakes of half a coin or a scrap of cloth were kept in the hope of a reunion that rarely came.
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