SC - Platina in Florence [silly]

[Laura C. Minnick]

allilyn at juno.com wrote:
> 
> >> available in
> Florence in 1495.  Then again, there is no concrete documentation to
> prove
> that water was available in Florence in 1495 either, but methinks it a
> safe
> presumption.<<
> 
> Now, Puck, you are just not paying attention.  The Po River flows through
> Florence, and has done so prior to 1495.  Scholars describing the city
> refer to the river, architects built bridges over it, and artists painted
> pictures of it.  Rivers contain water.
> 127 pages of documentation and footnotes to follow in next post.

The Po? Last I knew it was the Arno that runs through Florence. Or did
they change the name?

'Lainie