Florentine New Towns
Author: David Friedman
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlorentine New Towns is an original and comprehensive study of an important episode in late Medieval urbanism.
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Florence
Author: David Leavitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-12-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1596918438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third in the critically acclaimed Writer and the City Series - in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the cities they know best - Florence is a lively account of expatriate life in the 'city of the lily'. Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating - and so repellent - to artists and writers over the years? Moving fleetly between present and past and exploring characters both real and fictional, Leavitt's narrative limns the history of the foreign colony from its origins in the middle of the nineteenth century until its demise under Mussolini, and considers the appeal of Florence to figures as diverse as Tchaikovsky, E.M. Forster, Ronald Firbank, and Mary McCarthy. Lesser-known episodes in Florentine history - the moving of Michelangelo's David, and the construction of temporary bridges by black American soldiers in the wake of the Second World War - are contrasted with images of Florence today (its vast pizza parlors and tourist culture). Leavitt also examines the city's portrayal in such novels and films as A Room with a View, The Portrait of a Lady and Tea with Mussolini.
Florence in the Early Modern World
Author: Nicholas Scott Baker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 042985546X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlorence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of Florence remains unique. By exploring the city’s relationship to its close and distant neighbours, this collection of interdisciplinary essays reveals the transnational history of Florence. The chapters orient the lenses of the most recent historiographical turns perfected in studies on Venice, Rome, Bologna, Naples, and elsewhere towards Florence. New techniques, such as digital mapping, alongside new comparisons of architectural theory and merchants in Eurasia, provide the latest perspectives about Florence’s cultural and political importance before, during, and after the Renaissance. From Florentine merchants in Egypt and India, through actual and idealized military ambitions in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean, to Tuscan humanists in late medieval England, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume reveal the connections Florence held to early modern cities across the globe. This book steers away from the historical narrative of an insular Renaissance Europe and instead identifies the significance of other global influences. By using Florence as a case study to trace these connections, this volume of essays provides essential reading for students and scholars of early modern cities and the Renaissance.
Creating the Florentine State
Author: Samuel K. Cohn, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-12-09
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1139426761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a comprehensive approach to the study of the political history of the Renaissance: its analysis of government is embedded in the context of geography and social conflict. Instead of the usual institutional history, it examines the Florentine state from the mountainous periphery - a periphery both of geography and class - where Florence met its most strenuous opposition to territorial incorporation. Yet, far from being acted upon, Florence's highlanders were instrumental in changing the attitudes of the Florentine ruling class: the city began to see its own self-interest as intertwined with that of its region and the welfare of its rural subjects at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Contemporaries either remained silent or purposely obscured the reasons for this change, which rested on widespread and successful peasant uprisings across the mountainous periphery of the Florentine state, hitherto unrecorded by historians.
Florence
Author: Touring club italiano
Publisher: Touring Editore
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9788836515189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor over a century, the Touring Club of Italy has been publishing the country's most authoritative guidebooks and maps. The Heritage Series is the expert's guide to travel and sightseeing in Italy. Each volume includes museums, town histories, churches, landmarks, and archaeological sites. There are dozens of maps that give an overview of each city, plus detailed neighborhood plans. Listings of accommodations and restaurants are complete with addresses, price ranges, hours, and phone and fax numbers.
The Noisy Renaissance
Author: Niall Atkinson
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0271077832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society. Analyzing a range of documentary and literary evidence, art and architectural historian Niall Atkinson creates an “acoustic topography” of Florence. The dissemination of official messages, the rhythm of prayer, and the murmur of rumor and gossip combined to form a soundscape that became a foundation in the creation and maintenance of the urban community just as much as the city’s physical buildings. Sound in this space triggered a wide variety of social behaviors and spatial relations: hierarchical, personal, communal, political, domestic, sexual, spiritual, and religious. By exploring these rarely studied soundscapes, Atkinson shows Florence to be both an exceptional and an exemplary case study of urban conditions in the early modern period.
Florentine Tuscany
Author: William J. Connell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521548007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of the best recent research on the Republic of Florence in Tuscany during the Renaissance.
Florentine Histories
Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 0691212864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe description for this book, Florentine Histories, will be forthcoming.
Merchants in the City of Art
Author: Anne L. Schiller
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1442634634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.
Big Plans
Author: Kenneth L. Kolson
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-11-03
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780801877308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. The author explores the part serendipity plays in urban experience.
