A TRAVELLER'S COMPANION TO FLORENCE Edward Chaney (Italy)

This best loved and most visited of Italian cities is vividly brought to life in letters, diaries and memoirs of travellers from past centuries and by the Florentines themselves.

This is a used travel book in very good condition: nice and clean and rarely read; pages are clean and tanning lightly with age; excellent binding with no spine creases. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: This volume features a collection of letters, diaries and memoirs of travellers to Florence from past centuries and of the Florentines themselves. The extracts chosen include: Boccaccio on the Black Death; Vasari on the building of Giotto's Campanile; an eye-witness account of the installation of Michaelangelo's “David”; the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the Casa Guidi; and D.H. Lawrence and Dylan Thomas on 20th-century Florentine society. Sir Harold Acton provides a concise history of the city from its origins, through its zenith as a prosperous city state which, under the Medici, gave birth to the Renaissance, and up to the Arno's devastating flood in 1966. Sir Harold Acton, man of letters, historian, aesthete, novelist and poet, has spent most of his life in Florence. Among his best-known books is “The Last Medici, Memoirs of an Aesthete”.
Review
'It is the best conceivable companion guide to the city' - Country Life; 'It is hard to imagine a better way to begin to understand how Florence came to be what it is' - Spectator; 'precisely what it claims to be - a traveller's companion, idiosyncratic, gossipy, full of strange scraps of unlikely information... enjoyed equally by the armchair traveller... as it can be by the on-site tourist' - Irish Times; 'well worth reading'- Independent

Book Details

Code: SKU1715

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 330

Published: 1986/2002. Robinson, London

ISBN: 1841195324

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