Rome and The Guidebook Tradition From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
To this day, no comprehensive academic study of the development of guidebooks to Rome over time has been performed. This book treats the history of guidebooks to Rome from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century. It is based on the results of the interdisciplinary research project Topos an...
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2019
Berlin ; Boston : [2019] |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428255206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- The authors
- Introduction
- 1. Wanderers and Wonders. The Medieval Guidebooks to Rome
- 2. Two Sixteenth-Century Guidebooks and the Bibliotopography of Rome
- 3. Architects, Antiquarians, and the Rise of the Image in Renaissance Guidebooks to Ancient Rome
- 4. Fioravante Martinelli's Roma ricercata nel suo sito and his "lettore forastiero"
- 5. "Authors of degenerated Renaissance known as Baroque". The Baedeker Effect and the Arts: Shortcuts to Artistic Appreciation in Nineteenth-Century Rome
- 6. Mental Maps and the Topography of the Mind. A Swedish Guide to the Roman Centuries
- 7. Ellen Rydelius' Rom på 8 dagar (Rome in 8 Days). A Story of Change and Success
- 8. Codifying the Genre of Early Modern Guidebooks: Oskar Pollak, Ludwig Schudt and the Creation of Le Guide di Roma (1930)
- Appendix I: Must-See Monuments - the Colosseum in Guidebooks through the Centuries
- Appendix II: Itineraries through Trastevere from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
- Name Index
- Place Index
