Florence (Vol. 1&2)
A Historical Cultural Itinerary Through Churches, Palaces, Streets, and Galleries of the Tuscan RenaissanceBy Grant Allen
Length10h 3m
About this audiobook
Grant Allen's *Florence* is a two-volume Victorian novel that brings the tensions of modern social life into a narrative shaped by romance, moral inquiry, and keen observation. Its prose combines the accessibility of popular fiction with the analytical habits of a writer deeply influenced by contemporary science and evolutionary thought. Allen's interest lies less in melodramatic incident than in the pressures exerted by inheritance, education, gender, class, and convention, making the work a revealing example of late-nineteenth-century fiction negotiating between realism, social criticism, and the emerging "problem novel." Across its extended form, personal experience becomes a means of examining broader cultural change. Grant Allen (1848–1899), Canadian-born and educated in Britain, was one of the period's most energetic public intellectuals. He wrote extensively on biology, evolution, science, travel, and social questions, while also producing novels that challenged orthodox assumptions about marriage, morality, and women's independence. His scientific outlook encouraged him to treat character and society as products of circumstance and development rather than fixed moral categories. *Florence* reflects this intellectual background, presenting emotional and social conflicts with the curiosity of an observer attentive to the forces shaping human behavior. This edition will especially reward readers interested in Victorian realism, the history of evolutionary ideas, and the relationship between popular fiction and social criticism. It offers both an engaging narrative and a valuable document of an age testing inherited beliefs against modern knowledge. Readers of Allen's more explicitly controversial novels, as well as students of nineteenth-century literary culture, will find *Florence* a suggestive and worthwhile work.
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GenreTravel
Length10 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Gatherings from Spain (Annotated)
2Volume 1
3Introduction
4Chapter I. Origins of Florence.
5Chapter II. Santa Croce and the Franciscan Quarter.
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6Chapter III. The Sacristy and the Chapels.
7Chapter IV. Santa Maria Novella and the First Dominican Quarter.
8Chapter V. The Spanish Chapel.
9Chapter VI. The Old Cathedral.
10Chapter VII. The New Cathedral.
11Chapter VIII. The Second Dominican Quarter: San Marco.
12Chapter IX. The Fra Angelicos of San Marco.
13Chapter X. The Belle Arti.
14Chapter XI. The Halls of Perugino and Botticelli.
15Chapter XII. The Tuscan Galleries.
16Chapter XIII. The Hall of Fra Angelico.
17Volume 2
18Chapter I. The Piazza Della Signoria.
19Chapter II. The Long Corridor of the Uffizi.
20Chapter III. The Renaissance Paintings of the Uffizi.
21Chapter IV. The First Hall of the Tuscan School and the Tribune.
22Chapter V. The Halls of the Foreign Schools and the First Hall of the Venetian School.
23Chapter VI. The Second Hall of the Venetian School and the Early Florentine Paintings.
24Chapter VII. The Sculpture in the Uffizi.
25Chapter VIII. The Pitti Palace.
26Chapter IX. The Pitti Palace Continued.
27Chapter X. The Bargello.
28Chapter XI. Or San Michele.
29Chapter XII. San Miniato.
30Chapter XIII. The Etruscan Museum.
31Chapter XIV. The Residuum.
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