Italian Cities

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544133204

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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Pdf

Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.

Author : United States. Army Service Forces. Information and Education Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Italy
ISBN : UCAL:$D8209

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Pocket Guide to Italian Cities by United States. Army Service Forces. Information and Education Division Pdf

A handbook for U.S. military personnel stationed in Italy during World War II.

Author : Daniel Philip Waley,Trevor Dean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317864479

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The Italian City Republics by Daniel Philip Waley,Trevor Dean Pdf

Daniel Waley and Trevor Dean illustrate how, from the eleventh century onwards, many dozens of Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual ‘tyrants’ took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican self-government. Focusing on the typical medium-sized towns rather than the better-known cities, the authors draw on a rich variety of contemporary material (both documentary and literary) to portray the world of the communes, illustrating the patriotism and public spirit as well as the equally characteristic factional strife which was to tear them apart. Discussion of the artistic and social lives of the inhabitants shows how these towns were the seed-bed of the cultural achievements of the early Renaissance. In this fourth edition, Trevor Dean has expanded the book’s treatment of religion, women, housing, architecture and art, to take account of recent trends in the abundant historiography of these topics. A new selection of illuminating images has been included, and the bibliography brought up to date. Both students and the general reader interested in Italian history, literature and art will find this accessible book a rewarding and fascinating read.

Author : Philip Jones
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191590306

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The Italian City-State by Philip Jones Pdf

Italy in the Middle Ages was unique among the countries of Europe in recreating, in a changed environment, the urban civilization of antiquity - the society, culture, and political formations of city-states. This book examines the origins and nature of this phenomenon from the fall of Rome to the eve of its consummation, the Italian Renaissance. The explanation is sought in Italy's singular `double existence' between two contrasted worlds - ancient and medieval. The ancient was characterised by the total predominance of the landed aristocracy in economy and society, enforced through a peculiar system of city states embracing town and country. The new medieval influences were marked by the separation of town, country and aristocracy, by the identification of towns with trade and a mercantile bourgeoisie, and by commercial and proto-industrial revolution. Italy shared in both worlds. It remained a land of cities and of an urbanized ruling class (except in the Norman South) and re-established territorial city states; but the staes were very different from those of antiquity, the city leaders in the commercial revolution, and Italy itself seen as a nation of shopkeepers, birthplace of capitalism. In this fascinating and ground-breaking study, Philip Jones traces in detail the tension and interaction between the two traditions, civic and patrician, mercantile and bourgeois, through all phases of Italian life to their culmination in two rival regimes of communes and despots.

Author : Karen Rose Mathews
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004360808

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Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150 by Karen Rose Mathews Pdf

In Conflict, Commerce, and an Aesthetic of Appropriation in the Italian Maritime Cities, 1000-1150, Karen Rose Mathews analyzes the relationship between war, trade, and the use of spolia (appropriated objects from past and foreign cultures) as architectural decoration in the public monuments of the Italian maritime republics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Author : Trevor Dean,Daniel Waley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000630169

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The Italian City-Republics by Trevor Dean,Daniel Waley Pdf

Now in its fifth edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the eleventh century onwards, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual ‘tyrants’ took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican self-government. In this new edition, Trevor Dean has expanded the book’s treatment of women and gender, the early history of the communes and the lives of non-élites. Focusing on the typical medium-sized towns rather than the better-known cities, the authors draw on a rich variety of contemporary material, both documentary and literary, to portray the world of the communes, illustrating the patriotism and public spirit as well as the equally characteristic factional strife which was to tear them apart. Discussion of the artistic and social lives of the inhabitants shows how these towns were the seedbed of the cultural achievements of the early Renaissance. The Bibliography has been updated to a list of Further Reading with the latest scholarship for students to continue their studies. Both students and the general reader interested in Italian history, literature and art will find this accessible book a rewarding and fascinating read.

Author : William H. Fain
Publisher : Balcony Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1890449326

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Italian Cities and Landscapes by William H. Fain Pdf

In an age of digital cameras and computer renderings, the tradition of drawing and assembling an architectural sketchbook seems at once either willfully eccentric and or charmingly retrograde. But its profound importance to architecture and urban planning endures. Italian Cities and Landscapes is a compact and lovely sketch book created by architect William H. Fain during a six month fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Exploring the Italian city and countryside by bicycle, Fain used colored pencil to sketch scenes of the street life, the magnificent landscapes, and the architectural marvels of Italy. Italian Cities and Landscapes shows that for the creative individual, documenting travels through drawing continues to be a valuable means of learning to see, understand, and design.

Author : Caroline Goodson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781108489119

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Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy by Caroline Goodson Pdf

Demonstrates how food-growing gardens in early medieval cities transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.

Author : Paul N. Balchin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000550788

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The Development of Cities in Northern and Central Italy by Paul N. Balchin Pdf

Originally published in 2019, this book provides a comprehensive account of a formative historical period, uniquely describing Renaissance architecture as the physical manifestation of political and economic change. The book illustrates how shifts in architectural style and design were paralleled with Northern and Central Italy’s external and internal conflicts, the evolution of urban and regional government, and economic and demographic growth. Covering the full extent of the Renaissance period, Balchin charts the era’s medieval roots and its transformation into Mannerist and Baroque tendencies. He demonstrates how developments in architecture and planning were inextricably linked to political and economic power, and how these relationships shifted from city to city over time.

Author : Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783385489776

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Cities of Northern and Central Italy by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968702

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Mussolini's Cities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cecil Fairfield Lavell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : LCCN:50019666

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Italian Cities by Cecil Fairfield Lavell Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264089464

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Higher Education in Regional and City Development: Lombardy, Italy 2011 by OECD Pdf

This review finds that Lombardy is the most prosperous region in Italy. But the region faces long-term challenges emerging from an ageing population, immigration and slow adaptation of practices and technologies to enhance productivity.

Author : Trevor Dean
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826424266

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City and Countryside in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy by Trevor Dean Pdf

This book brings together challenging new essays from some of the leaders in Italian scholarship in three countries, to show the range of work that is currently being done not only on Florence but also on Naples, Ferrara and Lucca and on the relationship between cities and countryside.

Author : Janet Levarie Smarr,Daria Valentini
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838639658

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Italian Women and the City by Janet Levarie Smarr,Daria Valentini Pdf

Studies of the city, and of women's experiences of the city, have focused primarily on modern times, especially as modernism was defined in large part by urban life. Italy, however, has a long history of urban-centered culture, and women have been a vocal part of that culture since the Renaissance. This volume, therefore, looks at the art and literature of both earlier and more modern periods to investigate the meanings of the city for Italian women, the intensely gendered meanings (for both sexes) of those city spaces that excluded women, and the conditions that permitted a limited permeability of gendered boundaries. Two aspects to the combination of "women" and "city" are salient to these investigations. One involves their metaphorical relationship. Urbs, citta, ville -- the words for city tend to be grammatically feminine, and a long tradition of representation associates the city. with a woman. Women, especially writers, could exploit, modify, or resist the prevailing uses of such metaphors. The second aspect of connection involves social realities. What was or is the relation of the (female) city with the real women who inhabit it? What kind of site has it provided for women seeking a satisfying life for themselves? How has art and literature, by men and by women, represented the relationship of female persons or characters to urban spaces?