A Wanderer in Florence is E. V. Lucas’s discursive and charming guide to the city’s art, architecture, and history, written for the cultivated traveller. Strolling from church to gallery to palace, Lucas combines description of buildings and paintings with literary reflection, anecdote, and personal impression, conjuring the spirit of Florence as much as its monuments.
Lucas lingers over the cathedral and its dome, the Baptistery, Santa Croce, and the great works of the Renaissance masters, offering the reader a companion rather than a catalogue. His relaxed, essayistic style made the book a favorite among visitors of his day. It remains an enjoyable and cultured introduction to one of the world’s supreme cities of art and architecture.