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The Italian piazza transformed : Parma in the communal age / Areli Marina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marina, Areli, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Medieval--Italy--Parma.
- Architecture, Medieval.
- Architecture and society--Italy--Parma.
- Architecture and society.
- Parma (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Parma (Italy).
- Piazza Garibaldi (Parma, Italy).
- Piazza del Duomo (Parma, Italy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 198 p. ) ill. (some col.) ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- About the reconstruction diagrams
- Introduction
- The production of order. (Re)constructing the Piazza del Duomo
- (Re)constructing the communal piazza
- The piazza and public life. The legislation of order
- The eloquent piazza
- Epilogue. Parma's spatial practice compared
- Appendixes. On measurement, module, and geometry in medieval Parma
- The communal buildings of Parma : evidence and interpretation
- Salimbene de Adam's account of Parma's late thirteenth-century
- Architectural projects.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271055626
- 0271055626
- 9780271058917
- 0271058919
- 9780271053974
- 0271053976
- OCLC:
- 785940949
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