Invisible Cities
Title | Invisible Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Italo Calvino |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2013-08-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 054413320X |
Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
Pocket Guide to Italian Cities
Title | Pocket Guide to Italian Cities PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Army Service Forces. Information and Education Division |
Publisher | |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | Italy |
ISBN |
A handbook for U.S. military personnel stationed in Italy during World War II.
Italian Cities and Landscapes
Title | Italian Cities and Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Fain |
Publisher | Balcony Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2007-09-06 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781890449322 |
In an age of digital cameras and computer renderings, the tradition of drawing and assembling an architectural sketchbook seems at once either willfully eccentric and or charmingly retrograde. But its profound importance to architecture and urban planning endures. Italian Cities and Landscapes is a compact and lovely sketch book created by architect William H. Fain during a six month fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Exploring the Italian city and countryside by bicycle, Fain used colored pencil to sketch scenes of the street life, the magnificent landscapes, and the architectural marvels of Italy. Italian Cities and Landscapes shows that for the creative individual, documenting travels through drawing continues to be a valuable means of learning to see, understand, and design.
Cento Citta
Title | Cento Citta PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Hofmann |
Publisher | Owl Books |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1990-12-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780805014655 |
Describes points of interest in Italy's small cities and towns, discusses the history of each region, and recommends hotels and restaurants
The Italian City Republics
Title | The Italian City Republics PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Philip Waley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317864476 |
Daniel Waley and Trevor Dean illustrate how, from the eleventh century onwards, many dozens of Italian towns achieved independence as political entities, unhindered by any centralising power. Until the fourteenth century, when the regimes of individual ‘tyrants’ took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious, and very well-documented, experiment in republican self-government. Focusing on the typical medium-sized towns rather than the better-known cities, the authors draw on a rich variety of contemporary material (both documentary and literary) to portray the world of the communes, illustrating the patriotism and public spirit as well as the equally characteristic factional strife which was to tear them apart. Discussion of the artistic and social lives of the inhabitants shows how these towns were the seed-bed of the cultural achievements of the early Renaissance. In this fourth edition, Trevor Dean has expanded the book’s treatment of religion, women, housing, architecture and art, to take account of recent trends in the abundant historiography of these topics. A new selection of illuminating images has been included, and the bibliography brought up to date. Both students and the general reader interested in Italian history, literature and art will find this accessible book a rewarding and fascinating read.
Italian Cities
Title | Italian Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Cecil Fairfield Lavell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN |
Italian Cities
Title | Italian Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Howland Blashfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |