Florence : the biography of a city
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Florence : the biography of a city
Penguin, 1994, c1993
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"First published by Viking 1993. Published in Penguin Books 1994"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [376]-383
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of 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 bonfire of the vanities, 1492-8
- conspirators and cardinals, 1490-1527
- siege and murder, 1527-37
- the Grand Duke Cosimo I, 1537-74
- pageants and pleasures, 1560-1765
- tourists and tuft-hunters, 1740-88
- the Grand Duke Peter Leopold, 1765-91
- Napoleonic interlude, 1796-1827
- Risorgimento, 1814-59
- the capital of Italy
- "Ville Toute Anglais"
- residents and visitors
- "Firenze Fascistissima", 1919-40
- war and peace, 1940-66
- flood and restoration, 1966-92. Notes on buildings and works of art. Table of principle events. The Medici family.
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