All 19 Uses of
Florence
in
All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare
- SCENE 1. Florence.
Scene 3.1 *Florence = city in central Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance
- He hath arm'd our answer, And Florence is denied before he comes: Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see The Tuscan service, freely have they leave To stand on either part.†
Scene 1.2
- Enter the DUKE OF FLORENCE, attended; two French Lords, and Soldiers.]†
Scene 3.1
- Madam, he's gone to serve the Duke of Florence: We met him thitherward; for thence we came, And, after some despatch in hand at court, Thither we bend again.†
Scene 3.2
- —Towards Florence is he?†
Scene 3.2
- Florence.†
Scene 3.3
- Enter the DUKE OF FLORENCE, BERTRAM, PAROLLES, Lords, Soldiers, and others.]†
Scene 3.3
- Without the walls of Florence.†
Scene 3.5
- [Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA, MARIANA, and other Citizens.†
Scene 3.5
- Camp before Florence.†
Scene 3.6
- Florence.†
Scene 3.7
- Florence.†
Scene 4.2
- He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition.†
Scene 4.3
- Well, is this captain in the Duke of Florence's camp?†
Scene 4.3
- That is not the duke's letter, sir; that is an advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.†
Scene 4.3
- Florence.†
Scene 4.4
- You are deceiv'd, my lord; she never saw it: In Florence was it from a casement thrown me, Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought I stood engag'd: but when I had subscrib'd To mine own fortune, and inform'd her fully I could not answer in that course of honour As she had made the overture, she ceas'd, In heavy satisfaction, and would never Receive the ring again.†
Scene 5.3
- If you shall prove This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence, Where she yet never was.†
Scene 5.3
- He stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow him to his country for justice: grant it me, O king; in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer flourishes, and a poor maid is undone.†
Scene 5.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(Florence as in: the city) city in central Italy that was the center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries; provincial capital of Tuscany
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
the name of a person or other place