Arno is the river of Florence in the Florenzen chronicle. With its three belts of walls and its hundred thousand inhabitants, the city is arranged around the river, which splits it down the middle and is crossed by the Ponte Vecchio.
| Type | Place (river) |
| Era | 1300 |
| Location | Tuscany |
| Chronicle | florenzen |
| Spanish entry | Arno |
Role
- The river is also the route by which what should arrive no longer does. The Confrere of the woodcutters and carpenters (a minor guild, second to last in the ranking) carves wood beside an empty yard on the bank, where the river no longer brings logs. This shortage is one of the leads to the valley and the secret mining; see Poppi.
- Upriver and on the other side lie the hills of Fiesole and the shady forest running toward the Valle Leumbroso, forty or fifty kilometers from Florence across the Arno, toward the Apennines and Prato Magno.
- The Medici are recorded as originating from Mugello, a valley on the Sieve, a tributary of the Arno’s right bank about thirty kilometers north of Florence. Since 1201 a Medici named Chiarissimo sat on the council of the commune.