"When all of Rome was under construction" : the building process in Baroque Rome / Dorothy Metzger Habel.
Material type: TextPublication 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 2013Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Rome Global Gateway Library General Stacks | NA 9070 .H33 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000031403884 |
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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