TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hibbert,Christopher
TI  - Florence: the biography of a city 
SN  - 9780140166446 
AV  - 324 DG 737.3 H624f 2004
U1  - 945/.51 20
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin, 
KW  - Florence (Italy)
KW  - History
KW  - Florencia (Italia)
KW  - Historia
KW  - Descripciones y viajes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-383) and index; The Roman City, 59 BC-AD 405 --
Marauders, 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 bonfire of the vanities, 1492-98 --
Conspirators and cardinals, 1498-1527 --
Siege and murder, 1527-37 --
The grand Duke Cosimo I, 1537-74 --
Pageants and pleasures, 1560-1765 --
Tourists and tuft-hunters, 1740-88 --
The Grand Duke Peter Leopold, 1765-91 --
Napoleonic interlude, 1796-1827 --
Risorgimento, 1814-59 --
The capital of Italy --
"Ville Toute Anglaise" --
Residents and visitors --
"Firenze fascistissima," 1919-40 --
War and peace, 1940-66 --
Flood and restoration, 1966-92
N2  - Weaves political, social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations and line drawings that describe various buildings and treasures of the city
ER  -