Florentine New Towns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Florentine New Towns write by David Friedman. This book was released on 1988. Florentine New Towns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Florentine New Towns is an original and comprehensive study of an important episode in late Medieval urbanism.
Creating the Florentine State
Creating the Florentine State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating the Florentine State write by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. This book was released on 1999-12-09. Creating the Florentine State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 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.
The Noisy Renaissance
The Noisy Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Noisy Renaissance write by Niall Atkinson. This book was released on 2016-09-16. The Noisy Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From 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.
Frances Mayes Always Italy
Frances Mayes Always Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frances Mayes Always Italy write by Frances Mayes. This book was released on 2020. Frances Mayes Always Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This lush guide, featuring more than 350 glorious photographs from National Geographic, showcases the best Italy has to offer from the perspective of two women who have spent their lives reveling in its unique joys."--Publisher's description.
Big Plans
Big Plans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Plans write by Kenneth L. Kolson. This book was released on 2003-11-03. Big Plans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 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.
