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Cathedrals and High Finance

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Nathan Knopp
Mar 21, 2022
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The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore is one of those iconic buildings that feels surreal when you first clap eyes on it. The past and the present blur together like a pair of dancers. The soaring Duomo has crowned the skyline of Florence for six centuries. It looks like a giant wedding cake frosted with ornate patterns of pink and green marble. In th…

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