The beauties of the city of Florence: a guidebook of 1591
Francesco Bocchi; introduced, translated and annotated by Thomas Frangenberg & Robert Williams
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- London : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2006]
- Copyright:
- ©2006
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- Table of Contents:
- Beauties of the city of Florence
- San Gallo Gate
- The Roman Gate
- Del Prato Gate near Ognissanti
- San Niccolo Gate
- San Miniato Gate.
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- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
Translated from (original): Italian - Main Work:
- General 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 and index. - Physical Description:
- 282 pages, 12 unnumbered pages de plate : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Call Numbers:
- N6915 .B58513 2006
- ISBNs:
- 1872501443
9781872501444 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2006497340
- OCLC Numbers:
- 174099466