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9780271050706 Academic Inspection Copy

The Italian Piazza Transformed

Parma in the Communal Age
  • ISBN-13: 9780271050706
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Areli Marina
  • Price: AUD $204.00
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2012
  • Format: Hardback 192 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]
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Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

About the Reconstruction Diagrams

Introduction

Part I: The Production of Order

1 (Re)constructing the Piazza del Duomo

2 (Re)constructing the Communal Piazza

Part II: The Piazza and Public Life

3 The Legislation of Order

4 The Eloquent Piazza

Epilogue: Parma’s Spatial Practice Compared

Appendixes

I: On Measurement, Module, and Geometry in Medieval Parma

II: The Communal Buildings of Parma: Evidence and Interpretation

III: Salimbene de Adam’s Account of Parma’s Late Thirteenth-Century Architectural Projects

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“In this splendidly illustrated, intelligently designed, and elegantly written book, Areli Marina establishes herself as a leading new voice in medieval Italian urbanistic studies.”

—Gary Radke, Speculum

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