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Loading... A Travellers Companion to Florenceby Harold Acton (Editor), Edward Chaney (Editor)
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This volume features a collection of letters, diaries and memoirs of travellers to Florence from past centuries and of the Florentines themselves. The extracts chosen include: Boccaccio on the Black Death; Vasari on the building of Giotto's Campanile; an eye-witness account of the installation of Michaelangelo's David; the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the Casa Guidi; and D.H. Lawrence and Dylan Thomas on 20th-century Florentine society. Sir Harold Acton provides a concise history of the city from its origins, through its zenith as a prosperous city state which, under the Medici, gave birth to the Renaissance, and up to the Arno's devastating flood in 1966. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)945.51History and Geography Europe Italy and region Tuscany FlorenceLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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