'''Tuscany''' is an administrative region of central [[Italy]]. Its largest city is [[Florence]]. Tuscany and particularly Florence, [[Pisa]] and [[Siena]] became economical and cultural centres during the [[Renaissance]], and produced many of the greatest artists of that period. The poet [[Dante]] was a Florentine, and made the region's politics and history a theme of his ''[[Divine Comedy]]''; due partly to that work's enormous influence, the Tuscan dialect became the basis of the modern [[Italian]] language. | '''Tuscany''' is an administrative region of central [[Italy]]. Its largest city is [[Florence]]. Tuscany and particularly Florence, [[Pisa]] and [[Siena]] became economical and cultural centres during the [[Renaissance]], and produced many of the greatest artists of that period. The poet [[Dante]] was a Florentine, and made the region's politics and history a theme of his ''[[Divine Comedy]]''; due partly to that work's enormous influence, the Tuscan dialect became the basis of the modern [[Italian]] language. |