Article: Pope Eugenius IV and Jewish money-lending in Florence: the case of Salomone di Bonaventura during the Chancellorship of Leonardo Bruni.

Article: PUTTING HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MIND IS LEONARD FLORENCE KEEPS ON GIVING
The Boston Globe;  November 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ...For the record, Leonard Florence is not retiring. Despite what some...announcing that I'm not," he says. Florence has just stepped down as chairman...giftware and seasonal products. But Florence plans to devote most of his time to...

Article: FLORENCE A TRUE CROSSROADS CITY.(Living)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  October 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Laurie Wilcox Florence is the largest and most industrialized...city in 1958. The 2000 population of Florence was 23,551; in 2004, it was 25,449...force in the development of the city. Florence was first called Crossroads because...

Article: Seeing our world in Florence's art ; City's masterpieces still speak to us today
Concord Monitor;  February 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ......first person to sit down to write about Florence with Michelangelo looking over my shoulder...the same for the writer after a week in Florence. Back from the past, all he or she has...a long time, but I am glad I went to Florence now and not as a young person. True...

Article: Finally, it's Florence/ Class 3A state title is first since 1983
The Gazette;  December 1, 2002 ;     555 words ...FLORENCE - Zach Crofoot had impeccable timing Saturday, whether...championship football game. His instincts continued after Florence had beaten Palisade, 27- 21, to win the trophy in front...Seconds after Karpilo began walking toward hardware that Florence had not won since 1983, Crofoot raced ahead of him, ...

Article: Forever Florence
New Straits Times;  March 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Straits Times 03-16-2002 Forever Florence Byline: Umah Papachan Edition: The...PAPACHAN had an awesome time savouring Florence's historically rich culture and dazzling shopping during a brief visit. FLORENCE is an Italian city of monumental...

Article: FLORENCE Y'ALL FESTIVAL MARKS ITS 24TH YEAR.(News)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  September 2, 2003 ;     499 words ...Byline: Post staff report In Florence, Labor Day means Florence Y'All. The city's 24th festival was held Friday through...daughter, Holly Biss, 26, won the Little Mr. And Miss Florence pageant when she was 10 and then Miss Florence as a...

Article: Florence masters raging waters to claim canoeing silver medal
The Independent - London;  August 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ...David Florence reached for the stars but found heaven...failed to reach the kayak slalom final, Florence might even have gone one better. He was...been my goal for the last four years," Florence said. "I'm certainly not disappointed...

Article: LEONARD FLORENCE, 74, FOUNDER OF SYRATECH, LEADING PHILANTHROPIST
The Boston Globe;  June 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ......poor Russian-Jewish immigrants, Leonard Florence shined shoes at the Chelsea Soldiers...Soldiers Home would be named for Mr. Florence's parents, and he would become a member...Commander of the Knights of St. Gregory. Mr. Florence, who used his entrepreneurial skills...

Article: They came for the art Ian Thomson on the lure of Florence for would-be artists and aesthetes
The Sunday Telegraph London;  May 26, 2002 ;     515 words ...Florence, A Delicate Case by David Leavitt Bloomsbury, pounds 9.99, 176 pp pounds 9.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 FLORENCE, THE glittering birthplace of the Renaissance, is dying...Harold Acton, the self-styled aesthete who lived outside Florence, deplored the "atmosphere of weekend Surrey" that had...

Article: Immaculate consumption ; Whether it's food, fashion or football, Italians do it in style. Rory Ross finds all three in Florence, as well as swanky designer shops, classic works of art and love in the air
The Independent - London;  May 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ...It was April in Florence and the entire city was basking in...their arch-rivals to the south. In Florence - the cradle of Italian civilisation...of the Villa San Michele high above Florence in Fiesole, sipping a canaletto (prosecco...

Article: Striking out amid the art of Florence
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 15, 1990 ;     700+ words ...FLORENCE, Italy With apologies to W. C. Fields, I was in Florence a few weeks ago, but it was closed. Well, not totally...by its millenium's worth of art treasures. A handful of Florence's innumerable collections and churches tower above the...

Article: Rewriting heroines: Ruth Todd's "Florence Grey," society pages, and the rhetorics of success.
Studies in American Fiction;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......light-skinned title character of Ruth Todd's Florence Grey (1902) is abducted from a garden...Vanbrugh, who now intends to imprison Florence in a haunted mansion and make her his...Eventually the evidence of foul play accretes; Florence's friends and family find a shred of...

Article: FLORENCE REVIVES AS TOURIST MECCA
The Boston Globe;  January 18, 1987 ;     633 words ...FLORENCE - Smarting from a sharp decline in tourism last year...Mattioli, superintendent of tourism for the province of Florence. After a series of terrorist attacks in Italy, including...bottom fell out of the American tourist market. Hotels in Florence were hit by a wave of reservation cancellations as ...

Article: A young girl's courage and determination finally bring tears of joy and celebration; Florence overcomes leukaemia, a double lung transplant and cancer to enjoy a normal life.
The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia);  July 8, 2009 ;     503 words ......campbell@capnews.com.au NO one expected Florence David to be alive today. She's a shy...her. When she was only 2 1/2 years-old, Florence was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic...cure rate of more than 80%. But when Florence turned four she relapsed into the illness...