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Robbery Of Florentine Art Treas

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Day
1
Month
February
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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ures. - The Nazione of F loroucu jjives an account of itn extensivo robbory cwnroittëd ui Florence 'n the night of Dec. 17. All t.hoso wlio havo visittül that capital must be (vwura ui the jujraense treasuros of urt contained in the far-fumed Gallery of tho Uffi.i Ou the night in queslion soine thievus entered tiie Salle dello Gemine, or saloon of jowels ot the gallery, and carried ofi' a vast quantity { nnclos,i!l of con siderable cnritMiü value, b;it intinitaly more vuluable as .objec.s of art. - A'iiong thoiu ure several rings, the work ef Benvenuto Cellini, anda ring valued alone at lñO,OOUf, which huil belonged to Goêino del Medici, üther articles, wlnch ure too lurgeio be carried off, havu beun wantonly spoilud or broken ; among thein 11 vaso of oriental onyx, uil of one piuco, and oneof the largest known. The total value ol the artioles lo.st in oaloulatcd at up wards oí l,0UU,ÜJUf. The keeper ol thii Haloon, wlio infonned the pólice ot the fucts, is as yet the only mirnon arrestad. Trie thiuvj-i eífjóteg their entrance by the sky-light the r xit they could orvly huve reachud uithur fromthu Palazzo Vecchio or thu Pitti Paiacu They also liad si lalsn kay to tho d oí opening into the corridor of the Utïui but thuy could not inake use of it, üud ing it barred trom without. ThU koy thuy lost vvhile making their esc.pa and it waa fomid iu t)o inorning by ttiy Keeper.

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