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Florence: The Biography of a City Book

Paperback. Pub Date: March. 2004 Pages: 416 Publisher: Penguin This book is AS Captivating as the the CITY itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving Political. Social and art History into an elegantly readable and marvelously Lively WHOLE of The author's book on Florence WILL also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all the buildings and treasures of the city.Contents: The Roman city. 59 BC-AD 405; marauders. emperors and Margraves. 405-1115; merchants. Guelphs and Ghibellines. 1115-1280; blacks and whites. 1280-1302; life in Dante's Florence. 1265-1348; strikes and riots. 1348-1420; the rise of the House of Medici. 1420 -39; artists of the Medici. 1439-64; father of the country. 1455-64; wives and weddings. 1464-72; the Pazzi conspiracy. 1478; Lorenzo the magnificent. 1478-92; the...Read More

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  • Foyles

    This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all teh buildings and treasures of the city.

  • BookDepository

    Florence : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140166446 : : 27 Oct 1994 : Weaves political, social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations and line drawings that describe various buildings and treasures of the city.

  • Penguin

    A celebration of an extraordinary metropolis, Florence: The Biography of a City explores the art, literature, archaeology and social history that have shaped Italy's famous city across the ages, and is also an indispensable guide through the streets of Florence today.

  • Blackwell

    Weaves political, social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations and line drawings that describe various buildings and treasures of the city. This book is as captivating as the city itself.

  • ASDA

    Weaves political social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations and line drawings that describe various buildings and treasures of the city.

  • 0140166440
  • 9780140166446
  • Christopher Hibbert
  • 25 March 2004
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 416
  • New Ed
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