Views of Florence and Tuscany by Giuseppe Zocchi, 1711-1767

The city of Firenze represents, for the variety of its artistic and architectural heritage, a kind of open-air museum. Works of art and monuments are mainly made of the rocks outcr...

Chapter 7 shows how commercial crisis in Livorno, combined with debates over its distinctive institutions and problematic role in the policy process, helped introduce scientific po...

This chapter examines the development of other Italian communes in order to elucidate what city leaders thought they were doing when they moved into the new communal world. Emphasi...

Music scholars have long recognized the value of comparing settings of the same cantata texts by Bach and his German contemporaries. Examining the ways in which multiple musical mi...