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Prato : architecture, piety, and political identity in a Tuscan city-state / Alick M. McLean.
Fine Arts Library HT169.I82 P76 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLean, Alick Macdonnel, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Italy--Prato.
- City planning.
- Sociology, Urban--Italy--Prato.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Cities and towns, Medieval--Italy--Prato.
- Cities and towns, Medieval.
- Buildings--Italy--Prato.
- Buildings.
- Italy--Prato.
- Prato (Italy)--Social conditions.
- Prato (Italy).
- Prato (Italy)--Economic conditions.
- Prato (Italy)--History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 250 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- The urban and political representation of the Pratese
- Prato before Prato : polycentric settlements, monuments, and social order
- Prato unified and independent : centralized urban expression
- The architectural and urban expression of autonomy by the propositura in the twelfth century
- The expression of secular authority by the early communal regime
- The expression and defense of religious authority by the early communal regime
- The destruction of the Plaza Comunis and the shift of civic patronage from the propositura to the friars
- The new Piazza del Comune and the return of civic patronage to the Pieve di Santo Stefano and its piazza
- The significance of the Virgin, her belt, and its setting in Prato
- Epilogue
- Timeline
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Slip with illustration credits inserted.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300137149
- 0300137141
- OCLC:
- 190850411
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