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a guidebook of 1591

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The beauties of the city of Florence

a guidebook of 1591

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English
Pages
282

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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

Edition 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 (p. [263]-270) and index

Published in
London
Genre
Guidebooks

Classifications

Library of Congress
N6915 .B58 2006, N6915 .B58513 2006, N6921.F7, N6915 .B63 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
282 p., [12] p. of plates :
Number of pages
282

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17217564M
Internet Archive
beautiesofcityof0000bocc
ISBN 10
1872501443
ISBN 13
9781872501444
LCCN
2006497340
OCLC/WorldCat
65285987
Goodreads
1009610

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