
what kind of city is florence?
“how to reconcile this heaven of art with the hell you read of in dante’s inferno / of corrupt florentines and popes who abused their office / how to see past the peeling paint / to demolished jewish quarters and feuding noblemen and the scorched poor and their burned-down houses” – new in invisible cities, Jamie Uy writes about her time in Italy.

Writing Florence and Siena
Invoking Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Tzy Jiun Tan writes on her experience of art, life and cityscapes in Italy in this creative nonfiction piece.