Showing Florence: The Biography of a City by Christopher Hibbert

Paperback. Pub Date: March. 2004 Pages: 416 Publisher: Penguin This book is AS Captivating as the the CITY itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving Political. Social and art History into an elegantly readable and marvelously Lively WHOLE of The author's book on Florence WILL also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all the buildings and treasures of the city.Contents: The Roman city. 59 BC-AD 405; marauders. emperors and Margraves. 405-1115; merchants. Guelphs and Ghibellines. 1115-1280; blacks and whites. 1280-1302; life in Dante's Florence. 1265-1348; strikes and riots. 1348-1420; the rise of the House of Medici. 1420 -39; artists of the Medici. 1439-64; father of the country. 1455-64; wives and weddings. 1464-72; the Pazzi conspiracy. 1478; Lorenzo the magnificent. 1478-92; the...