Much of the patrimony is managed by a foundation and, in return for tax breaks, belongs by law to the nation and cannot be sold.
The symbol of Florence's artistic patrimony was a crucifix by Cimabue, an influential painter in the 13th century.
It is their cultural patrimony, they say.
They are consumed with hatred against the Jews who, they believe, have deprived them of their patrimony.
Indeed, the painting, begun in 1503, seemed-and still seems-somehow French, having entered the national patrimony around 1516, when Francis I invited Leonardo to his palace at Amboise.
Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood and started writing as a way to explore the pain and the patrimony of Hell's Kitchen.
