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The beauties of the city of Florence : a guidebook of 1591 / Francesco Bocchi ; introduced, translated and annotated by Thomas Frangenberg & Robert Williams.
LIBRA N6915 .B58513 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bocchi, Francesco, 1548-1618.
- Standardized Title:
- Bellezze della città di Fiorenza. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Italy--Florence.
- Art.
- Italy--Florence.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Florence.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Florence (Italy)--Guidebooks.
- Florence (Italy).
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- 282 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2006]
- Contents:
- Beauties of the city of Florence
- San Gallo Gate
- The Roman Gate
- Del Prato Gate near Ognissanti
- San Niccolo Gate
- San Miniato Gate.
- Notes:
- "The text presented here, Francesco Bocchi's Le Bellezze della città di Fiorenza (The Beauties of the City of Florence), originally published in 1591, is one of the most remarkable of Renaissance writings on art and thus an especially valuable document of the culture within which and for which Renaissance art was made. It is not exactly the first guidebook, nor is it entirely an art guidebook in the modern sense of the word, but it marks an important step in the history of guidebook literature, perhaps the definitive step in the formation of the modern genre."--P. 3.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-270) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1872501443
- 9781872501444
- OCLC:
- 65285987
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