Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome

by Pamela O. Long

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022654379X
• ISBN13: 9780226543796
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 10.0"