Andrew Johnson's RENAISSANCE IN TUSCANY
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    • My View of a Renaissance Pope's Piazza
  • PIENZA
    • Little Guided Visit to the Pienza Cathedral
    • Pienza's Missing Statues
    • The Bishop and the Pope
  • FLORENCE
  • ARTISTS AND ARTWORKS
    • Botticelli's Adoration
    • Bernardo Daddi
    • Uccello's Hunt
    • Botticelli's Vision
    • Botticelli's Satyrs
    • Piero's Mystery
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Pienza to start with....   
The Pienza Comune official site :  www.comune.pienza.siena.it  
And the admirable ProLoco Pienza volunteers' site -- in English and Italian:   www.prolocopienza.it

Terrific 360-degree panorama visual tours of the renaissance masterpiece Piazza Pio II,  its cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, and the pope's Palazzo Piccolomini:    www.thinklab360.com/en/siena-virtual-tour/pienza-360.html 

The extraordinary Pienza museum with its papal treasures -- not to be missed :  www.museisenesi.org/media/museo-diocesano 

Useful tourist information -- in English and Italian :  www.ufficioturisticodipienza.it
                                                                      and in Italian but accessible :   www.pienza.info   and   www.portalepienza.it 

Writings on Pienza -- in Italian but growing :   www.centrostudipientini.it  

Florence to start with....

The tourist office, of course -- in Italian, English and Spanish:    www.firenzeturismo.it

First class site on the marvellous cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore,  its museum, the famous baptistery, campanile, and more:   www.operaduomo.firenze.it

 'Window on the Renaissance' -- the 'mediateca' of the Palazzo Medici :   http://www.palazzo-medici.it/mediateca/en/index.php

A Sixteenth Century Gazetteer of Florence, on-line:   www.stg.brown.edu/projects/florentine_gazetteer

Explore the Uffizi through the Google Art Project:    www.googleartproject.com/museums/uffizi                                    
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