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The Beauties of the City of Florence: A Guidebook of 1591

2006 · 100898 — London: Harvey Miller Publishers 2006. Cloth 282 pages 12 pages of plates illustrations some colour maps plans; 29 cm. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History. Firm binding clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The text presented here Francesco Bocchi's Le Bellezze della citta` 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. CONTENTS: Beauties of the city of Florence; San Gallo Gate; The Roman Gate; Del Prato Gate near Ognissanti; San Niccolo Gate; San Miniato Gate. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible. Harvey Miller Publishers Hardcover