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House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo

Autor Allison Levy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2020
A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai.When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the palazzo of her dreams - the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence - she finds herself consumed by the space and swept into the vortex of its history. She spends every waking moment in dusty Florentine libraries, exploring the palazzo's myriad rooms seeking to uncover its secrets. As she unearths the stories of those who have lived behind its celebrated façade, she discovers that it has been witness to weddings, suicides, orgies, the dissection of a 'monster', and even a murder.Entwining Levy's own experiences with the ghosts of the Palazzo Rucellai's past, House of Secrets paints a scintillating portrait of a family, a palace and one of the most iconic cities in the world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788317559
ISBN-10: 1788317556
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 8pp colour plates and 43 black and white integrated images
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Tauris Parke
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

A portrait of Florence like no other and the first time the history of the iconic Palazzo Rucellai has been told

Notă biografică

Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University. An art historian, educated at Bryn Mawr College, Allison has taught in the US, Italy, and the UK. The author and editor of four books on early modern Italy and Europe, she is also General Editor of the book series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700, published by Amsterdam University Press.

Cuprins

Map of FlorenceList of IllustrationsTimeline of principal eventsAuthor's NotePrefaceProloguePiano TerraChapter One: The MerchantPrimo PianoChapter Two: The OpportunistsSecondo PianoChapter Three: The Heir AberrantTerzo PianoChapter Four: The Suicide BrideQuarto PianoChapter Five: The SalonnièreQuinto PianoChapter Six: The TenantSesto PianoEpilogueAcknowledgmentsText PermissionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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One of the best chapters in the book brings [the relationship between young America and old Florence] vividly to life.
'Levy's writing is pacy and . witty, and she deploys a wide range of materials well'
House of Secrets is revelatory . Levy is a thorough and thoroughly engaging storyteller, leaving no stone of the Palazzo Rucellai unexamined . a whole memory palace embodied by the Palazzo Rucellai for which Levy - author, art historian, inhabitant - is the ideal guide.
With House of Secrets, Allison Levy presents an enthralling tour through an extraordinary Florentine palazzo.
In this provocative and lively account, Allison Levy deft ly mingles scholarship and personal history to tell the story of a building that is also the story of a family, a city, a country and a continent over the course of several tumultuous centuries.
With the delicious happenstance of securing her lodging in a grand Renaissance Florentine palazzo (otherwise quite off limits to the public), the author weaves together a lively -dare one say sexy?- personal narrative with a chronicle ofseveral hundred years in the life of the city's nobility.
Art Historian Allison Levy has writt en a delightful, fascinating, and riveting yarn about a palazzo, a family, and a city across time.
The story she weaves is rich in history and anecdote, scholarly erudition and private experiences. The resulting book is as layered and multi-dimensional as the palazzo itself.