The Italian piazza transformed [electronic resource] : Parma in the communal age / Areli Marina.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)ISBN:- 9780271053974
- 0271053976
- 711/.550945441 22
- NA9072.P364 M37 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
About the reconstruction diagrams -- Introduction -- The production of order. (Re)constructing the Piazza del Duomo -- (Re)constructing the communal piazza -- The piazza and public life. The legislation of order -- The eloquent piazza -- Epilogue. Parma's spatial practice compared -- Appendixes. On measurement, module, and geometry in medieval Parma -- The communal buildings of Parma : evidence and interpretation -- Salimbene de Adam's account of Parma's late thirteenth-century -- Architectural projects.
"Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.
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