The Florence I Don't Remember

The Renaissance in less than ten photos

The view from the Bardini Gardens, 2008 / Laura Motta

I’ve been to Florence once, more than fifteen years ago. I feel like it’s fallen off since then, since social media flattened the entire nation of Italy into a lemon-print dress that everyone is wearing, an okayish gelato you can get in New York, and a single tumbling sea cliff that no one realizes ne…