fiorino

), with the name given to the Duomo,

St.

Maria del Fiore, tend to show that the name was taken from the flowery mead, rather than from the name of a Roman praetor. Leonardo Aretino states that the name of the city originally was

Fluentia

, so called because situated between the Arno and the Mugnone: and that subsequently, from the flourishing state of the colony, it was called