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Giotto, da Vinci, Donatello, Michelangelo, Bruneschelli must have first mention. Every city, town and village has its own magnificent
works: paintings, a church dome or interior, a door carved in high relief, a piazza. Inter-city rivalries were ubiquitous in the Tuscany of the
Middle Ages (Florence versus Siena being the most no- table). Te nobility and merchant classes had begun accu- mulating great wealth and, bless them, engaging in bitter competition with their rivals to commission works from master artists of the time. Te rivalry continues today, but only on playing fields or in traded insults.
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A few tombs and the remains of an amphitheatre are
the chief remnants of the first major civilization here. Te Etruscans, likely Turkish in origin, began making their mark in the eighth century B.C. in the area running south- ward from Florence to Rome. Tis largely unknown population came with an attach- ment to the Greek culture and adopted its art styles but left behind few mementos beyond their name and a few urns housed now in Tuscany museums. Teir civilization peaked during the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. and fell to the Romans three centuries later. Te Romans brought prosperity, removing political bar- riers between territories, constructing roads and allowing
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