Logic behind a good minestrone
Minestrone is a soup made with whatever you have on hand; there is no set recipe even if the base of the soup is more or less the same everywhere.


If you put beans early, they will break and make the soup "mushy".
You can substitute with other kind of beans,
Parsley can be added early (especially the stems) and removed later on; imo, it does not taste good; add basil as the very end (or at serving time).
Don't know, you can use whatever you want and whatever you have on hand.
Sauteeing vegetables, and adding "color" to them will improve some of the flavor and increase some of the sweetness of the vegetbles.
Impossible to answer that one