Arezzo

One of the most important cities of the etruscan federation , in roman times it also help a pre-eminent position among the cities of the italian peninsula.
In the midle ages it was one of the first to elect its own government and in the 13th and 14th centuries , under the aegis of its warrior bishop , it was powerfull republic led by the Ghibelline faction.
For this reason it long opposed the Florentine Guelph faction for supremacy in Tuscan until , a century after the harsh defeatsuffered at the battle of Campaldino it was annexed with all its extensive lands into the Republic of Florence.
Over the centuries the land of Arezzo has given birth to illustrious men , most notably Mecenate , adviser to Augustus and protector of artists , Francesco Petrarca, the greatest Italian liric poet , Piero della Francesca, Masaccio ,Paolo Uccello and giorgio vasari , painter and architect.