Façades

Peter Burke

  • The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History by Richard Goldthwaite
    Johns Hopkins, 459 pp, £16.50, April 1981, ISBN 0 8018 2342 0
  • Public Life in Renaissance Florence by Richard Trexler
    Academic Press, 591 pp, £29.80, March 1981, ISBN 0 12 699550 8
  • Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice by Edward Muir
    Princeton, 356 pp, £10.80, August 1981, ISBN 0 691 05325 1
  • Venice: The Greatness and the Fall by John Julius Norwich
    Allen Lane, 400 pp, £12.00, September 1981, ISBN 0 7139 1409 2
  • Ruskin and Venice edited by Jeanne Clegg
    Junction, 233 pp, £10.50, September 1981, ISBN 0 86245 019 5
  • The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin and Jan Morris
    Faber, 239 pp, £12.50, September 1981, ISBN 0 571 11815 1

Why Florence? What made this particular European city so important for the arts in the Renaissance? It’s a problem many historians have tried to solve. The latest is Professor Goldthwaite, an old Florentine hand who has moved from a study of the ways in which the Florentines made their money to a study of the ways in which they spent it.

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