1. Marketplace Encounters : Social Mixing on the Streets of Early Modern Florence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Part I The City as a Performative Space in Early Modern Italy
6. 1. Marketplace Encounters : Social Mixing on the Streets of Early Modern Florence 19
7. 2. “Noble Edifices” : The Urban Image of Papal Rome, 1417–1667 39
8. 3. Perspective Cities : Staging Transferable Spaces in Learned Comedy 65
9. 4. The Lure of Shopping : The Mercerie in Early Modern Venice and the City as a Permanent Mall 81
10. 5. Ancient Magnificence and Modern Design: Roman Architecture and Identity in the Printed Works of Alessandro Specchi (1666–1729) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) 111
11. Part II The City in Times of Crisis: Urban Spaces in Modern Italy
12. 6. Le piazze d’Italia : De Chirico’s Prophetic Vision of Public Space in Destination Italy 139
13. 7. Colonie Architecture and Fascism’s Cult of Youth 157
14. 8. Fare la vita grigia: The Industrial City of Italo Calvino and Luciano Bianciardi 183
15. Part III The City as a Space of Conflict: Landscapes of Late Capitalism
16. 9. Il mondo è meglio non vederlo che vederlo : Naples as Urban Dystopia in Un paio di occhiali 207
17. 10. Narratives of a ‘City Under Siege’ : Bodies and Discourses of the 1977 Movement in Bologna 225
18. 11. Exploring Urban Space : Terzani’s In Asia (1965–1997) 245
19. Index 265