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Florence
Each year, millions of visitors travel to Florence to admire the architectural marvels of this famous Renaissance city. In this compact yet comprehensive volume, architect and architectural historian Richard J. Goy offers a convenient, accessible guide to the city’s piazzas, palazzos, basilicas, and other architectural points of interest, as well as pertinent historical details regarding Florence’s unique urban environment. Clearly laid out and fully illustrated, this handbook is designed around a series of expertly planned walking tours that encompass not only the city’s most admired architectural sites, but also its lesser-known gems. Maps are tailored to each walking tour and provide additional references and insights, along with introductory chapters on the city’s architectural history, urban design, and building materials and techniques. Featuring a complete bibliography, glossary of key terms, and other useful reference materials, Goy’s guide will appeal both to travelers who desire a greater architectural context and analysis than that offered by a traditional guide and to return visitors looking to rediscover Florence’s most enchanting sites.
Contested Heritage in Europe and Africa
This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immaterial forms of representation, commemoration, and memorialization. Recent waves of protest around the world have called for restitution of looted African art, and toppled statues and vandalized monuments which are connected to white suprematism, colonialism, and imperialism. These events have highlighted an urgent need to debate the management and preservation of Europe and Africa’s shared heritage. Drawing on a range of varied, trans-continental case studies, this book considers the key question of whether such monuments should be removed as forms of unacceptable celebra...
Renato Severino. Building in the western hemisphere. 1959-1989
Renato Severino, architect, graduated in the Fifties at the University of Florence with Adalberto Libera, started a shining career very young, thanks to his high-level skill that made him enter the upper range of italian architectural teams of that period. He worked with Adalberto Libera and Pier Luigi Nervi and, in 1964, at just 34 years old, he designed the Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest university campus in Cape Coast, Ghana. His interest in light technology led him to build the Italsider’s resort of Cesana Torinese (1963), one of the first responsive high-tech architecture in Italy. In the United States, where he moved in 1968, his professional activity gained a worldwide extension, wi...
Tödlicher Caffè
Frühlingserwachen in Ligurien. Caponnettos Freude über seinen Beitrag zur Überführung eines Mörders an der Seite von Commissario Bonfatti währt nur kurz. Während er sich wieder der Osteria Il Golfo und ihrer attraktiven Pächterin Giulia widmen möchte, holt ihn seine Vergangenheit ein. Ein Gefängnisausbruch in München alarmiert nicht nur das bayerische LKA, sondern auch die italienische Polizei. Caponnetto muss zwischen Zuppa und Dolce erkennen, dass seine Zeit als Carabiniere zwar offiziell vorbei ist, aber noch lange nicht abgeschlossen.
Interior Design Masters
Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. They are the people, historical and contemporary, that students and practitioners should know. Coverage starts in the late Renaissance, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has five sections, with the entries alphabetical in each, so it can serve as a history textbook and a reference guide. The seventeeth- and eighteenth-century section covers figures from Thomas Chippendale to Horace Walpole. The nineteenth-century section includes William Morris and Candace Wheeler. The early twentieth-century section presents modernism’s design heroes, including Marce...
Halo
An original weird short story by Francesco Falconi. From a tribute to Kafka's Metamorphosis, with three flashbacks, an ironic and sharp point of view will tell the story of a family drama and a redemption. Until the last line, when you will discover the identity of the narrator.
Architecture, Industry and Innovation
Nicholas Grimshaw is one of the pre-eminent figures of the British architectural scene, and is a leading light of the high-tech movement. The period 1965-1988 established his reputation worldwide as a master architect of great subtlety.
Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime
This volume explores the dense networks created by diplomatic relationships between European courts and aristocratic households in the early modern age, with the emphasis on celebratory events and the circulation of theatrical plots and practitioners promoted by political and diplomatic connections. The offices of plenipotentiary ministers were often outposts providing useful information about cultural life in foreign countries. Sometimes the artistic strategies defined through the exchanges of couriers were destined to leave a legacy in the history of arts, especially of music and theatre. Ministers favored or promoted careers, described or made pieces of repertoire available to new audiences, and even supported practitioners in their difficult travels by planning profitable tours. They stood behind extraordinary artists and protected many stage performers with their authority, while carefully observing and transmitting precious information about the cultural and musical life of the countries where they resided.
