The Italian piazza transformed
Subtitle: Parma in the communal age
By: Areli Marina
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271050706
Subjects: Architecture and society; Buildings, structures; Medieval Architecture; Parma (Italy)
Description: "Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: About the reconstruction diagrams; title: Introduction; title: The production of order. (Re)constructing the Piazza del Duomo; title: (Re)constructing the communal piazza; title: The piazza and public life. The legislation of order; title: The eloquent piazza; title: Epilogue. Parma's spatial practice compared; title: Appendixes. On measurement, module, and geometry in medieval Parma; title: The communal buildings of Parma : evidence and interpretation; title: Salimbene de Adam's account of Parma's late thirteenth-century; title: Architectural projects.