Two centuries of a public service all-important for the life of a city are examined here with the aid of precious documents and the determinative support of photography. Lighting seen not only as a technical fact, but considere...
Sport is a theme that offers the possibility to become acquainted with the history of our city in its most daily aspects. In fact, through its disciplines as practised on an amateur or professional basis, sport has made its dee...
A photographic album that illustrates aspects of social life in Florence between the 19th and 20th centuries: popular entertainment, religious and civil manifestations, exhibitions, sport, with the most famous squares serving t...
A photographic album that illustrates aspects of social life in Florence between the 19th and 20th centuries: popular entertainment, religious and civil manifestations, exhibitions, sport, with the most famous squares serving t...
This book on the history of the lighting in the city of Florence constitutes a special story that concerns, above all, the changes that took place and the results obtained in the field of the production and distribution of elec...
The volume wants to be - as Toraldo di Francia, one of the authors, writes - a sort of illustrated 'Atlas' of the masonry curtain of the streets and squares of Florence. The photos of Massimo Pacifico depict frontally the detai...
The volume intends to present the evolution of the city of Florence from the end of the 19th century up to our day, passing through two particularly dramatic historic moments: the 1944 bombardments and the 1966 flood. The pictu...
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All means of transport that have ploughed the streets and squares of Florence are documented here, starting from 1865 when, in coincidence with the transferring of the capital from Turin and the beginning...
Florence played a prominent role in the story of the ‘artistic fortunes’ of Paul Cézanne, thanks to the far-sightedness of two young American-born collectors, Egisto Paolo Fabbri and Charles Alexander Loese...
A panorama 500 years long seen from the windows of Palazzo Antinori, symbol of the continuity of an age-old lineage and of a solid family tradition now in step with modern times. The Antinoris were merchants who had belonged ...
Florence was an emergency within an emergency: almost all of the center and north of Italy had been hit hard by the bad weather and men and means, in particular the Firemen, were called upon en masse to lend a hand. The most ...
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