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"When all of Rome was under construction" : the building process in Baroque Rome / Dorothy Metzger Habel.

By: Habel, Dorothy Metzger, 1950-Material type: TextTextPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013. Description: 232 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 27 cmISBN: 9780271055732 (cloth : alk. paper); 0271055731 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Alexander VII, Pope, 1599-1667 | Plazas -- Italy -- Rome -- Design and construction -- History -- 17th century | City planning -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 17th century | Architecture and state -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 17th century | Piazza Colonna (Rome, Italy) -- History -- 17th century | Piazza San Pietro (Vatican City) -- History -- 17th centuryDDC classification: 711/.4094563209032 LOC classification: NA 9070 | .H33 2013
Contents:
The urban redevelopment of Piazza Colonna I : "senza spesa ne aggravare alcuno" -- The urban redevelopment of Piazza Colonna II : "il negotio restava aggiustato" -- The repercussions of building Piazza S. Pietro : "in tempo che tutta Roma era in fabrica" -- Lorenzo Pizzatti and his "Roza riforma" : a pavonazzo speaks up "tutto per ben publico."
Summary: "Analyzes the politics and economics of architecture and the building process in seventeenth-century Rome. Explores topics ranging from the financing of construction to the availability of materials and personnel"--Provided by publisher.
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NA 9050.5 .D49 2015 The afterlife of the Roman city : NA 9053.E58 .G5413 2010 Green life : NA 9053 .H76B85 1999 Building cities : NA 9070 .H33 2013 "When all of Rome was under construction" : NA 9085 .S5 C65 2006 Camillo Sitte : NA 9085.S5 C65 2006 Camillo Sitte : NA 9085.S5 C65 2006 Camillo Sitte :

Includes bibliographical references (p.[211]-223) and index.

The urban redevelopment of Piazza Colonna I : "senza spesa ne aggravare alcuno" -- The urban redevelopment of Piazza Colonna II : "il negotio restava aggiustato" -- The repercussions of building Piazza S. Pietro : "in tempo che tutta Roma era in fabrica" -- Lorenzo Pizzatti and his "Roza riforma" : a pavonazzo speaks up "tutto per ben publico."

"Analyzes the politics and economics of architecture and the building process in seventeenth-century Rome. Explores topics ranging from the financing of construction to the availability of materials and personnel"--Provided by publisher.

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