History: Italy from The Owl at the Bridge

Portfolio box of black & white views of Florence-- reproductions published for the 200th anniversary of the artist's death in 1767. Title from label on front of box. Contents of this copy: Giuseppe Bouchard's 1755 map of Florence; dedication page; plates I, II, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV (S. Trinità), XIV (SS.… Read more about this item

"Prospetto dell' opera" (general headings) includes Storia ecclesiastica, Storia politica e civile, Storia genealogica e biografica, Storia letteraria, Storia di belle arti e antichità, Storia scientifica. Facsimile reprint of the Venezia, 1847 edition. Two volumes; 26 cm. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth, gold spine lettering; slight shelfwear; near fine. Stock#ofc0754 + 24511.

Issued as no. 484 of Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences. "Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia, 1941." 247 pages; 23.5 cm. Small folded map, "The Kingdom of Italy 1812", loose inside front cover. Black cloth stamped in gold; no dust jacket; Very Good. Stock#ofc0685.

Color aerial photographs of the urban center of Florence, accomplished in the early 1990s. Essays: Alfredo Franchini, Firenze s'è desta: metodi e scelte per uno sviluppo equilibrato; Gabriella Orefice, Dall'immagine alla misura della città; Mario Fondelli, Le rappresentazioni cartografiche e aerofotogrammetriche moderne del centro urbano di Firenze; Marcello Vittorini, Il nuovo piano regolatore di Firenze; Oberdan Armanni, Verso… Read more about this item

"This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city's treasures against the historic background of Florence's glorious art." 354 pages, endpaper maps, black & white photos; 24 cm. Very Good in VG color pictorial dust jacket.… Read more about this item

"By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a… Read more about this item

Introduzione di Aldo Palazzeschi. "con una Pianta del centro distrutto di Firenze e 163 illustrazioni." Photographic record of those parts of Florence which were altered or destroyed as the city grew. 171 pages of text; 163 black & white illustrations. Very Good; pictorial dust jacket has small closed tears; slipcase beginning to come apart but still… Read more about this item

Contents include I. Background: The Vasari Tradition (Dates, Documents and Sources; Nineteenth Century Restorations and Discoveries); II. Recent Studies and Excavations-- 1957-1958 (General Problems; The Carolingian Origins: Trinita I; Trinita II-- ca. 1060 to ca. 1180; The Missing Link: Trinita III-- ca. 1175f.); III. The Church that Nicola Pisano Did Not Build: Santa Trinita IV [vii], 43 pages, 7… Read more about this item

Based in a trove of previously unknown documents discovered in Florence by Gino Corti. "When the transcribed documents arrived in St. Louis, about two-thirds of them turned out to be the long-missing material covering the construction and decoration of the Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal... These records, contained in the ledgers of the Cambini bank, which had… Read more about this item

"From the turmoil of the Middle Ages, the incessant clash of factions and feuds, the dim bits of frescoes and anonymous crucifixes, Florence only slowly emerged as the civilized, learned, and cultured republic of Renaissance lore. Levey captures the drama and confusion of these early days leading to Florence's arrival as one of the world's great cities, announced to… Read more about this item

"The book is full of startling insights and connections... Greatness is here associated... with the small and the local, the free commune, public assembly, and republican institutions. If the book has a individual hero, it is the bald plain architect Brunelleschi, who raised the dome of the Cathedral contrary to all received opinion about the way it might… Read more about this item

"In this beautifully illustrated book, Gene Adam Brucker analyzes all the factors that together form the unicum that is the quintessential nature of the Florentine. "Original text in English by Gene Adam Brucker. Additional material by Nello Forti translated by James Ramsay and Geoffrey Culverwell." "First American Edition." "Published in Italian under the title 'Firenze 1138-1737… Read more about this item

A thorough pictorial tour of the city & environs. 478 photographs, mostly black & white plus 16 color and a map of the city, indexed at end; 29 cm. Color pictorial dust jacket torn but all present. Stock#ofc0640.

Two volumes. Parte Prima: Introduzione di Bino Sanminiatelli. Massa Carrara, la Lunigiana, la Versilia; Lucca, la Lucchesia, la Garfagnana; Pistoia; I colli di Firenze, il Chianti, il Mugello, il Valdarno; Pisa, la sua pianura, e il Volterrano; Arezzo, Cortona, Il Casentino; Siena e San Gimignano; Livorno; La Maremma Grossetana. 224 pages, index, 286 photographs, 16 quadricromie… Read more about this item

I: Florence in the 1540s: How Cosimo de' Medici turned a worn-out republic into a well-run monarchy; II: Florence in the 1590s: How Scipione Ammirato solved just about all the problems of his age; III: Florence in the 1630s: How Galileo Galilei turned the universe inside out; IV: Florence in the 1680s: How Lorenzo Magalotti looked in vain for a… Read more about this item

First published 1989, Firenze. Translation: Lisa Pelletti. "Palazzo Vecchio, the cradle of Florentine civilization, with the Salone del Cinquecento, the Apartments and the works of art housed in them, illustrated by Ugo Muccini, Director of Palazzo Vecchio, and Alessandro Cecchi, Curator at the Uffizi Gallery." 128 pages, color illustrations throughout; 26.5 cm. Color pictorial paper covers;… Read more about this item

"In a book as outstanding for its text as for its illustrations, Iris Origo, brilliant biographer and scholarly social historian, has re-created the life and world of a singularly attractive saint." ix, 303 pages; index, bibliography, notes; 26 cm. Slightly shelfworn but Very Good in Fair dust jacket & with bookplate. Stock#ofc0621.

"In this lively, provocative, and wholly absorbing new book, isa Jardine offers a radical new interpretation, arguing that the creation of culture during the Renaissance was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth-- that the expansion of commerce spurred the expansion of thought. ...While Europe's crowned heads and merchant entrepreneurs competed with each other to acquire works of art… Read more about this item

Contents: I. Regesten unedirter Urkunden zur Geschichte von Handel, Gewerbe und Zunftwesen. 1. Handel: a) Auszug aus 'Jornale thesauri' König Karls IV, von Frankreich; b) Auszug aus 'Recettes et Dépenses du Trésor'; c) Aus Geheim-Geschäftsbüchern der Strozzi, Bardi und Peruzzi. 2) Gewerbe; Lehrverträge; 3. Zunftwesen. II. Die Schwarzen und die Weissen. 1. Corso Donati und der Prozess gegen seine… Read more about this item

Tipografia G. Carnesecchi e Figli, Firenze, 1902; Ristampa anastatica, a tiratura limitata, 1968, Bottega d'Erasmo, Torino. At head of title: Pubblicazioni del R. Istituto di Studi Superiori Pratici e di Perfezionamento in Firenze. Sezione di Filosofia e Filologia. On the origins, formation and establishment of the Florentine Accademia Platonica. Contents include: I. Il primato accademico dell'Italia e i… Read more about this item