The Companion Guide to Florence by Eve Borsook

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This is a book to read before you go, to carry with you and to re-read on your return. SPECTATORA sure and illuminating guide. SUNDAY TIMESThe city state of Florence led the rest of the western world in art, science and political idealism in the middle ages. This early richness, the importance of the achievements of its famous sons, including Dante, Giotto, Leonardo and Michelangelo, the great quantity of visible remains, make Florence as a city to visit both alluring and challenging. In show more true Companion Guide manner, this book describes, with the knowledge and insight distilled from long residence in Florence, and with an art historian's eye, what is to be seen and its place in history. In discussing the Florentine monuments and their origins in the city's life, EVE BORSOOK presents a study of the ideas, events and personalities of Florence yesterday and today; she communicates to the visitor her delight in her chosen city, including those districts usually neglected by the tourist but particularly rich in Florentine life.EVE BORSOOK is a research associate at Harvard's Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence. show less

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Net terug uit Firenze, met dit boek in mijn koffer. Per wijk eerst gedetailleerde overzichten van gebouwen, kunstwerken en andere, maar dan gevolgd door uitgebreide toelichtingen, achtergrondgeschiedenissen en persoonlijke inzichten van de auteur, die alles tot leven brengen. De eerste editie dateert van 1966 en is verschillende keren bijgewerkt, maar je begint wel te merken dat het wat verouderd is. Toch de moeite om mee te nemen, als tegenhanger voor de oppervlakkige moderne gidsjes. (Overigens vind ik Firenze een prachtige stad met tal van wonderlijke kunstwerken, maar alleen maar genietbaar voor 10 uur 's ochtends, voor de horden toeristen buitenkomen).

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