Florence: The Biography of a City
- ISBN-10
- 0140166440
- ISBN-13
- 9780140166446
- Series
- Florence
- Category
- History / Europe / General
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin Adult
- Author
- Christopher Hibbert
Description
This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. 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 teh buildings and treasures of the city.
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