The Noisy Renaissance

View of the bell towers of the Badia (left) and the Bargello (right) from Piazza San Firenze.

La Piagnona, the bell whose sound was so closely associated with the voice of Savonarola, now in the former chapter house of San Marco after its restoration.

View of the bell tower of the Palazzo Vecchio from the Oltrarno.

View of the four principal towers, the central acoustic transmitters of the Florentine soundscape, from the Fortezza del Belvedere. (left to right) Cathedral, Priors (above the Palazzo Vecchio), Badia, Podestà (above the Bargello).