Florence

  • Florence: A Delicate Case
    Florence: A Delicate Case
    By David Leavitt

    Firbank saves his most biting parody for the aesthete 'Eddy' Monteith, son of Lord Intriguer, a character based on his former intimate, Evan Morgan. In 1920, the two had had a falling—out over Firbank's play The Princess Zoubaroff, ...

  • Florence
    Florence
    By Jason A. Clark, Craig P. Della Penna

    I I 'I I “:A" The Cooper homestead was located at 35 Main Street. The house was moved to 188 North Elm Street just prior to the expansion of the Coopers' grocery store in 1985. The spot on which it stood is now the parking lot at the ...

  • Florence
    Florence
    By Jonathan Buckley, James McConnachie

    Slim, stylish and pocketable, Florence Directions is full of ideas for stop-overs, long-weekends and flying visits to one of Italy''s most popular city break destinations, richly illustrated with hundreds of...

  • Florence
    Florence
    By Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff, AA Publishing Staff

    Quick and easy to consult, the principal features of interest are described in the main Sights From A To Z section, with each entry cross-referenced to the large folded map...

  • Florence
    Florence
    By Tim Moore, Michael D. Rouse

    Joe Surface , w.o. Meyers , Winny , Lou Thompson de Mary Elizabeth Mc Crander . A WERS ROTOR CR Oy Seen here in the 1920s , the landmark Meyer's Building , at the corner of Main and Shelby , was home to the Meyers Motor Company .

  • Florence
    Florence
    By Paul Blanchard

    ... H Chiostrino dei Morti B 5 Spanish Chapel Chiostro Grande Ubriachi Chapel Chiostro Verde Old 6 +7 Cemetery Refectory 1 2 2 Entrance to Cloisters N A Cappella della Pura B Cappella Rucellai C Cappella dei Bardi D Cappella di Filippo ...

  • Florence
    By Brian Bell, Christopher Catling

    Florence

  • Florence
    Florence
    By David Leavitt

    'Florence is the only European city I can think of whose most famous citizens, at least in the last 150 years or so, have all been foreigners.' Thus David Leavitt writes in this lively account of expatriate life in the city of the lily.

  • Florence: A Delicate Case
    Florence: A Delicate Case
    By David Leavitt

    Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here?

  • Florence: A Portrait
    Florence: A Portrait
    By Michael Levey

    ( Alinari ) Girolamo Ticciati : St John the Baptist in Glory , Museo dell'Opera del Duomo . Donatello : The Marzocco ' , Museo nazionale del Bargello . ( Scala ) Bernardino Pocetti : Drawing of the Unfinished Façade of the Duomo , Museo ...

  • Florence
    Florence
    By Brenda Harrison, Jennifer Leach

    Each view, coupled with fact-filled captions, reveals yet another part of the story of this fine example of a genteel, southern city.

  • Florence: The Biography of a City
    Florence: The Biography of a City
    By Christopher Hibbert

    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.

  • Florence: The City and Its Architecture
    Florence: The City and Its Architecture
    By Richard Goy

    This book offers a comprehensive account of the architecture of Florence, setting the city's extraordinarily beautiful buildings within the political, economic and cultural contexts in which they were designed and...

  • Florence: The Biography of a City
    Florence: The Biography of a City
    By Christopher Hibbert

    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: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
    Florence: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
    By Sharon Strocchia

    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, ...

  • Florence: An Architectural Guide
    Florence: An Architectural Guide
    By Guido Zucconi, Pietro Ruschi

    This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of...

  • Florence: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
    Florence: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
    By Oxford University Press

    Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

  • Florence
    Florence

    THE HILLS OF FLORENCE FIESOLE The The hills to the north and south of Florence embrace the city and gently force it to stay close to its river . They set the natural limits to urban expansion , but merit is also due to a city planning ...

  • Florence
    By Cristina Acidini Luchinat, Stefano Zuffi

    Dotés d'un incorrigible sens critique et d'un goût prononcé pour la polémique, les Florentins se plaisent à déclarer, depuis l'époque de Dante, qu'ils regrettent le passé. En réalité, Florence a...

  • Florence
    Florence

    The early population was largely Irish, coming to work in the Florence Iron Works, established in 1857. Originally the Jones Foundry, the ironworks produced cast-iron pipe, Mathews fire hydrants, and cylinders for Baldwin locomotives.