Florence (Vol. 1&2)
Historical Guide BookBy Grant Allen
Length9h 51m
About this audiobook
The object and plan of this book is somewhat different from that of any other guides at present before the public. The author's purpose is not to direct the stranger through the streets and squares of an unknown town toward the buildings or sights which he may desire to visit; still less is it his design to give him practical information about hotels, cab fares, omnibuses, tramways, and other everyday material conveniences. For such details, the traveller must still have recourse to other trusty books. The author desires to supply the tourist who wishes to use his travel as a means of culture with such historical and antiquarian information as will enable him to understand, and therefore to enjoy, the architecture, sculpture, painting, and minor arts of the towns he visits. His object is to give the reader in a very compendious form the result of all those inquiries which have naturally suggested themselves to my own mind during thirty-five years of foreign travel, the solution of which has cost myself a good deal of research, thought, and labour, beyond the facts which I could find in the ordinary handbooks.
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GenreHistory, Travel
Length9 hrs 51 mins
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Publish dateJun 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
15Chapter I. The Piazza Della Signoria.
2Chapter I. Origins of Florence.
16Chapter II. The Long Corridor of the Uffizi.
3Chapter II. Santa Croce and the Franciscan Quarter.
17Chapter III. The Renaissance Paintings of the Uffizi.
4Chapter III. The Sacristy and the Chapels.
18Chapter IV. The First Hall of the Tuscan School and the Tribune.
5Chapter IV. Santa Maria Novella and the First Dominican Quarter.
19Chapter V. The Halls of the Foreign Schools and the First Hall of the Venetian School.
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6Chapter V. The Spanish Chapel.
20Chapter VI. The Second Hall of the Venetian School and the Early Florentine Paintings.
7Chapter VI. The Old Cathedral.
21Chapter VII. The Sculpture in the Uffizi.
8Chapter VII. The New Cathedral.
22Chapter VIII. The Pitti Palace.
9Chapter VIII. The Second Dominican Quarter: San Marco.
23Chapter IX. The Pitti Palace Continued.
10Chapter IX. The Fra Angelicos of San Marco.
24Chapter X. The Bargello.
11Chapter X. The Belle Arti.
25Chapter XI. Or San Michele.
12Chapter XI. The Halls of Perugino and Botticelli.
26Chapter XII. San Miniato.
13Chapter XII. The Tuscan Galleries.
27Chapter XIII. The Etruscan Museum.
14Chapter XIII. The Hall of Fra Angelico.
28Chapter XIV. The Residuum.
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