The guide to essential Italy
By: the Teaching Company ; Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses. Better living. Travel; The great courses -- 3032; Great courses (DVD) -- 3032.; Great courses (DVD)
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 1080
ISBN-13: 9781629971926
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Guidebooks; Description and travel; History
Other titles: Essential Italy; Guide to essential Italy: course guidebook.
Description: "This epic travel adventure from The Great Courses and Smithsonian's travel arm, Smithsonian Journeys, delivers a feast of cultural and historical riches."--From container.
Notes: Accompanied by the course guidebook of the same title: The guide to essential Italy: course guidebook / Kenneth R. Bartlett, Ph. D. Published by the Great Courses; copyright The Teaching Company, 2015.

"Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, University of Toronto"--Course guidebook cover and DVD container.

Taught by Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, University of Toronto.

DVD video, Dolby digital, NTSC.

Soundtrack in English; course guidebook in English.
Table of contents: title: disc 1.; title: Rome: the eternal city --; title: The Capitoline and the Colosseum --; title: Imperial palaces of the Palatine Hill --; title: Pompeii: a city frozen in time --; title: The Roman Forum --; title: Along the Via Sacra to the Capitoline -- -- disc 2.; title: The Via del Corso and Princely Palaces --; title: The Trevi Fountain and Baroque Rome --; title: Above and beyond the Spanish Steps --; title: At the bend of the Tiber --; title: The Pantheon to Campo dei Fiori --; title: Piazza Farnese to the Ara Pacis -- -- disc 3.; title: Piazza del Popolo to San Clemente --; title: The Vatican and St. Peter's Basilica --; title: Orvieto, Siena, and San Gimignano --; title: Florence: politics in art and architecture --; title: From the Piazza del Duomo to San Marco --; title: San Croce and the Pazzi Chapel -- -- disc 4.; title: En route to the Ponte Vecchio --; title: The Pitti Palace --; title: The Oltrarno --; title: Walking to Santa Maria Novella --; title: From Santa Maria Novella to San Lorenzo --; title: The Medici legacy -- -- disc 5.; title: The Ognissanti, palaces, parks, and villas --; title: Romantic views: San Miniato and Fiesole --; title: Arezzo, Perugia, and Assisi --; title: Venice: the center of power --; title: The drawing room of Europe: Piazza San Marco -- -- disc 6.; title: The Ducal Palace --; title: Venetian civilization --; title: Along the Giudecca and Grand Canals --; title: The Upper Canal and San Marco on foot --; title: The Rialto and Sestiere San Polo --; title: Sestiere Castello and the Outer Islands.