The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History

by Richard A. Goldthwaite

Book Overview

'Awarded'' the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association.' Always fascinating...The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and moreauthentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture.--Felix Gilbert, 'New York Review of Books.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801829771
• ISBN13: 9780801829772
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"