With the ambitious, innovative, and beautifully illustrated Street Life in Renaissance Italy, Fabrizio Nevola makes a valuable contribution to the spatial history of Italian Renaissance cities. Revisiting themes he has examined in previous publications, especially focusing on Siena and Florence, Nevola expands his scope to consider cities of various scales and sociopolitical profiles from across the peninsula, including major centers such as Rome and, more cursorily, Venice, Milan, and Naples, but also smaller cities like Arezzo, Bologna, Ferrara, and Mantua, as well as less studied towns like Viterbo and Ascoli Piceno. He uses archival records, novellas, maps, architectural drawings, treatises, paintings, and prints from 1400 to 1600 to narrate microstories that document the interplay between spatial practices and the urban realm. Throughout, Nevola effectively deploys the theories of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau to examine how everyday activities gave meaning to the built environment and how it in...
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March 2022
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March 01 2022
Street Life in Renaissance Italy Available to Purchase
Fabrizio Nevola
Street Life in Renaissance Italy
New Haven, Conn.
: Yale University Press
, 2020
, 320 pp., 150 illus. $60 (cloth), ISBN 9780300175431
Saundra Weddle
Saundra Weddle
Drury University
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022) 81 (1): 105–106.
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Saundra Weddle; Street Life in Renaissance Italy. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2022; 81 (1): 105–106. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.1.105
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