MONTE SENARIO.
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As the Grand Duke Francis preferred Pratolino to Cafag-
giolo, we hear no more of this favourite country seat of the first
Cosimo, though it is still kept in good preservation, and was
only sold a few years ago by the Crown to the Prince Borghese.
Monte Senario is celebrated for the beauty of its wild flowers,
especially for its sweet-scented violets, as well as the snowdrops
which whiten the ground in early spring. It also produces
many medicinal herbs and a variety of fruits.
CHRONOLOGY.
A.D.
1268
Arbia, battle of .
Benizzi, San Filippo, joined the Servites.
1247
Boccaccio, Giovanni.
1313—1375
Brunetto Latini
d. 1494
Buontalenti, Bernardo
1536—1608
Castiglione, Dante da
.b. 1503 ;
1519—1589
Catharine de’ Medici.
1587—1609
Ferdinand I., Grand Duke, reigned
Francis I., Grand Duke, reigned.
1574—1587
1737—1765
Francis II., Grand Duke, reigned
Frederick II., Emperor
1194—1250
Giovanni da Bologna
1524; d. 1600
Landor, Walter Savage
1785; d. 1864
Montorsoli, Giovan Angelo
b. 1506 ; d. 1563
Otho III., Emperor
985—1002
Piero Martire in Florence
1544
Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke, reigned
1765—1790
Radagasius, battle of
406
1409—1480
René of Anjou .
d. 1880
Ricasoli, Baron Bettini.
Senario, Monte, Hermitage founded
1234