Façades
Peter Burke, 19 November 1981
The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History
by Richard Goldthwaite.
Johns Hopkins, 459 pp., £16.50, April 1981,0 8018 2342 0 Show More
by Richard Goldthwaite.
Johns Hopkins, 459 pp., £16.50, April 1981,
Public Life in Renaissance Florence
by Richard Trexler.
Academic Press, 591 pp., £29.80, March 1981,0 12 699550 8 Show More
by Richard Trexler.
Academic Press, 591 pp., £29.80, March 1981,
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
by Edward Muir.
Princeton, 356 pp., £10.80, August 1981,0 691 05325 1 Show More
by Edward Muir.
Princeton, 356 pp., £10.80, August 1981,
Venice: The Greatness and the Fall
by John Julius Norwich.
Allen Lane, 400 pp., £12, September 1981,0 7139 1409 2 Show More
by John Julius Norwich.
Allen Lane, 400 pp., £12, September 1981,
Ruskin and Venice
edited by Jeanne Clegg.
Junction, 233 pp., £10.50, September 1981,0 86245 019 5 Show More
edited by Jeanne Clegg.
Junction, 233 pp., £10.50, September 1981,
The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin and Jan Morris.
Faber, 239 pp., £12.50, September 1981,0 571 11815 1 Show More
by John Ruskin and Jan Morris.
Faber, 239 pp., £12.50, September 1981,
“... These palaces were essentially status symbols. Italy was becoming a land of façades. Professor Richard Trexler, another old Florentine hand, is interested in another kind of façade. His long-awaited book is a study of ritual and formal behaviour in Florence from the 14th century to the end of the last Republic in 1530. Historical studies of ritual ... ”
