A Travellers Companion to Florence
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A Travellers Companion to Florence by Harold Acton
A collection of letters, diaries and memoirs of travellers to Florence from past centuries and of the Florentines themselves. The authors provide a concise history of the city from its origins, through its zenith as a prosperous city state and up to the Arno's devastating flood in 1966.
'It is the best conceivable companion guide to the city' - Country Life; 'It is hard to imagine a better way to begin to understand how Florence came to be what it is' - Spectator; 'precisely what it claims to be - a traveller's companion, idiosyncratic, gossipy, full of strange scraps of unlikely information.. enjoyed equally by the armchair traveller... as it can be by the on-site tourist' - Irish Times; 'well worth reading'- Independent
Sir Harold Acton is a distinguished man of letters, historian, aesthete, novelist and poet, and has spent most of his life in Florence. Among his best-known books is The Last Medici, Memoirs of an Aesthete. Edward Chaney is Shuffrey Research Fellow in the history of architecture at Lincoln College, Oxford and has taught and lectured in Pisa and Florence.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841195322 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841195324 |
| Title | A Travellers Companion to Florence |
| Author | Harold Acton |
| Series | A Traveller's Companion |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2002-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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