ITALIAN CITIES (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Christopher Hibbert
Published by Folio Society
in 1997
- Categorised in:
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- ITALY
- VENICE
- ROME
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (ITALIAN)
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ITALIAN CITIES (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Christopher Hibbert.
Stock no. 1830206
1998.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Three volume set: Venice; Florence; and Rome. Bound in full moire silk with gilt titles to spine and vignettes to front. Colour & b/w photos. Second printing. Spines have faded (fairly normal for this set). Center section of first set of coloured plates in 'Rome' has not been bound in and so is loosely contained but present, lower front corner is bumped in correlation with the slipcase. Contents of all three volumes are clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is a little bashed to lower end (and thus 'Rome' is bumped to one lower corner) with wear to short side.
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ITALIAN CITIES (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Christopher Hibbert.
Stock no. 1829357
1st thus.
1997.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Three volume set: Venice; Florence; and Rome. Bound in full moire silk with gilt titles to spine and vignettes to front. Colour & b/w photos. Spines are very lightly browned else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is split to either side of top but still firm, also worn to top & tail of spine, a few scuff marks (VG-).
Front cover
Contents
- ROME
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- PART I
- 1. Myths, Monarchs and Republicans
- 2. Imperial Rome
- 3. Bread and Circuses
- 4. Catacombs and Christians
- 5. Infamy and Anarchy
- 6. Saints, Tyrants and Anti-Popes
- 7. 'The Refuge of All the Nations'
- 8. Renaissance and Decadence
- 9. Patrons and Parasites
- 10. The Sack of Rome
- PART II
- 11. Recovery and Reform
- 12. Bernini and the Baroque
- 13. Il Settecento
- 14. Napoleonic Interlude
- 15. The Risorgimento and the Roman Question
- 16. Royal Rome
- 17. Roma Fascista
- EPILOGUE: The Eternal City
- PART III
- NOTES ON TOPOGRAPHY, BUILDINGS AND WORKS OF ART
- SOURCES
- INDEX
- VENICE
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- PART I
- 1. The City in the Sea, 500-1150
- 2. Merchants and Crusaders, 1150-1268
- 3. Travellers and Imperialists, 1268-1310
- 4. 'A Cytie Glorious', 1310-1427
- 5. The Empire in Danger, 1427-1527
- 6. The Venice of Marin Sanudo, 1527-33
- 7. Defeats and Triumphs, 1523-91
- 8. Artists and Architects, 1460-1592
- 9. Ambassadors and Visitors, 1591-1646
- 10. Conspirators and Enemies, 1606-1718
- 11. Venice in the Eighteenth Centure, 1718-97
- 12. Napoleonic Interlude, 1789-1814
- PART II
- 13. The Romantic Response, 1814-20
- 14. Daniele Manin and the New Republic, 1820-48
- 15. The City under Siege, 1848-9
- 16. The Vencie of the Ruskins, 1849-71
- 17. Tourists and Exiles, 1871-1913
- EPILOGUE
- PART III
- Glossary
- Note on the Gondola
- List of Doges, 697-1797
- Notes on Buildings and Works of Art
- Museums and Art Galleries
- Sources
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- 18. Venetian Nocturne, 1913-66
- FLORENCE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ILLUSTRATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- MAPS
- 1. The Roman City, 59BC - AD 405
- 2. Marauders, Emperors and Margraves, 405-1115
- 3. Merchants, Guelphs and Ghibellines, 1115-1280
- 4. Blacks and White, 1280-1302
- 5. Life in Dante's Florence, 1265-1348
- 6. Strikes and Riots, 1348-1420
- 7. The Rise of the House of Medici, 1420-39
- 8. Artists of the Medici, 1439-64
- 9. Father of the Country, 1455-64
- 10. Wives and Weddings, 1464-72
- 11. The Pazzi Conspiracy, 1478
- 12. Lorenzo the Magnificent, 1478-92
- 13. The Bonfire of the Vanities, 1492-8
- 14. Conspirators and Cardinals, 1498-1527
- 15. Siege and Murder, 1527-37
- 16. The Grade Duke Cosimo I, 1537-74
- 17. Pageants and Pleasures, 1560-1765
- 18. Tourists and Tuft-hunters, 1740-88
- 19. The Grand Duke Peter Leopold, 1765-91
- 20. Napoleonic Interlude, 1796-1827
- 21. Risorgimento, 1814-59
- 22. The Capital of Italy
- 23. Ville Toute Anglaise
- 24. Residents and Visitors
- 25. Firenze Fascistissima, 1919-40
- 26. War and Peace, 1940-66
- 27. Flood and Restoration, 1966-92