Giotto was even so thorough as to give one relief to the conquest of the air; and he makes Noah most satisfactorily drunk.

Note also the Florentine fleur-de-lis round the base of the tower.

Every fleur-de-lis in Florence is beautiful--even those on advertisements and fire-plugs--but few are more beautiful than these.
I climbed the campanile one fine morning--417 steps from the ground--and was well repaid; but I think it is wiser to ascend the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio, because one is higher there and, since the bulk of the dome, which intrudes from the campanile, is avoided, one has a better all-round view.

Florence seen from this eminence is very red--so uniformly so that many towers rise against it almost indistinguishably, particularly the Bargello's and the Badia's.

One sees at once how few straight streets there are--the Ricasoli standing out among them as the exception; and one realizes how the city has developed outside, with its boulevards where the walls once were, leaving the gates isolated, and its cincture of factories.