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At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a?crumbling city? populated by?broken ruins? into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by Rome were spurred to develop new graphic modes for depicting the city?and the genre known as the city portrait exploded. In Rome Measured and Imagined, Jessica Maier...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Rome may be renowned for individual sites like the Colosseum and St. Peter's Basilica, but its most captivating feature is its many overlapping-and surviving-layers of history. Over nearly 3,000 years, the Rome of the Caesars has given way to the Rome of the Popes, the Rome of the Grand Tourists, and several more incarnations down to the present. Along the way, it has also become perhaps the most frequently mapped city on the planet. This book is...
6) Italy south
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World atlas volume 111
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Distributed by TravelVideoStore.com
Pub. Date
[2008?]
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English
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Includes digitally animated maps from Rand McNally and in-depth cultural and historical information. Covers physical geography, political geography, popular locations, and thematic maps.