The beauties of the city of Florence
Subtitle: a guidebook of 1591
By: Francesco Bocchi ; introduced, translated and annotated by Thomas Frangenberg & Robert Williams
Contributors: Frangenberg, Thomas; Williams, Robert
Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers; Brepols Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781872501444
Subjects: Bocchi, Francesco, -- 1548-1618; Art -- Italy -- Florence; Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence; Florence (Italy) -- Guidebooks
Genres: Guidebooks
Work titles: Le Bellezze della città di Fiorenza.
Notes: "The text presented here, Francesco Bocchi's Le Bellezze della città 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

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-270) and index
Table of contents: title: Beauties of the city of Florence; title: San Gallo Gate; title: The Roman Gate; title: Del Prato Gate near Ognissanti; title: San Niccolo Gate; title: San Miniato Gate