EST QVIA CVNCTORVM FLORENTIA PLENA BONORUM

“FOR FLORENCE IS ABOUNDING IN ALL RICHES”

We see this Latin text first on the floor of the Baptistry in Florence with a slight variation and again later in time (1255 A.D) in an inscription on the exterior wall of the Bargello. In both cases the author praises his City for its wondrous riches. What we now see, many centuries later, was, in a way, foreseen back in the XIII^th Century, that Florence is a City whose Art, Literature and History through the ages are beyond compare and a source of learning and delight to scholars and students for many generations.

Somewhat neglected, however, is an interest in and the value of the many Latin inscriptions throughout Florence and its environs of which the above quotation is a fine example These have yet to be collected, photographed, researched and edited, published in print, and ultimately archived.