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The Duomo (cathedral), officially Santa Maria del Fiore, proclaims the inordinate but certainly justified civic pride of the Florentines.
The church is also revered by Florentines as the last resting place of many great Italians.
Despite uprisings such as that of the Ciompi (wool-workers), the resilient Florentines were well-fed and highly literate compared to the rest of the country.
Michelangelo wanted the tomb surmounted by the Pietà, now in the cathedral museum (see page 61), but the Florentines almost didn’t get even his body — they had to smuggle it out of Rome.
Standing against a hostile world of cruel Philistines, Florentines loved to identify with the beauty and courage of the poetic young giant-killer.