| Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia,[1] near the Porta Romana at Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. Florence's older sister Parthenope (pronounced /pɑrˈθiːnəpɪ/) had similarly been named after her place of birth, a Greek settlement now part of the city of Naples.
Or, to put it another way...The Lady With The Lamp wasn't American. |