European Ambition
The Old World’s Meek Culture Must Change
It was a dead thing. There is no other description for it: a building without a head. For fifty-six years, the people of Florence walked past a decapitated cathedral, the pre-dead corpse of Santa Maria Del Fiore.
Since 1380, the city of Florence had abandoned it with a 150-foot hole at the top, lopped off at the neck to drink weather. A person of that ti…