The Liberation of Florence ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Liberation of Florence ~ The Imaginative Conservative

I started out for Florence in the morning in a state of feverish excitement, and the recollection of the sights of that day makes it difficult to write even now. We drove down the hill from San Casciano to the Greve valley with a sense of overwhelming tragedy. The destruction of Florence seemed the end of all civilization. How long would this situation last? On August 11 the German forces defending the north bank of the Arno in the center of Flo…