The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History

by Prof Richard A. A. Goldthwaite (Author)

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1982
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'Awarded'' the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association.' Always fascinating...The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and moreauthentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture. --Felix Gilbert, 'New York Review of Books.'

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'Awarded'' the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association.' Always fascinating...The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and moreauthentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture. --Felix Gilbert, 'New York Review of Books.'

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 480
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 01 Oct 1982
ISBN 10: 0801829771
ISBN 13: 9780801829772

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Always fascinating... The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and more authentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture. -- Felix Gilbert * New York Review of Books *
Always fascinating... The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and more authentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture. -- Felix Gilbert * New York Review of Books *

Author Bio

Richard A. Goldthwaite is professor emeritus of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History and Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600, both also published by Johns Hopkins.