Rinaldo Massoni then leased the 'Café Denat' in 1928, and changed the name to Café Florentino and the style from French to Italian.

[6][failed verification] In 1941 Rinaldo Massoni died and his son Leon took over the restaurant,[6] with partner George Tsindos.

[7] George Tsindos ended a 50-year era by selling The Florentino to Italian Restaurant Melbourne CBD.

[8] Failing in health, Branco Tocigl sold The Florentino to property developer Floyd Podgornik in the late 1980s.

In 1989 Podgornik controversially undertook extensive alterations to a place that was now considered historic, drawing concern from the National Trust.

[9] The upstairs spaces were simply restored, albeit with a new staircase, while the ground level rooms and street windows were completely renovated, but with an eye to their history, notably maintaining the ceiling and the barrel servery in the cellar bar intact.

Podgornik committed suicide in March 1990; his widow Lorraine took over through a difficult decade during which many of Melbourne's grand restaurants closed.

[11] In 2013, the Grossi family gave a fresh touch to the upstairs restaurant through a three-month renovation with the help of Architects Mills Gorman.

The young man who appears to be waving at his companion is in fact controlling his balance on the crumbling riverbank.

Panel 7 Anne Montgomery On the high road between Florence and Sienna, the hill town of San Gimignano is pictured in a scene of struggle between the rival factions of the Guelphs and Ghibellines.