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 :
Walter De Gruyter,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota
- Wanderers and Wonders. The Medieval Guidebooks to Rome / Anna Blennow
- Two Sixteenth-Century Guidebooks and the Bibliotopography of Rome / Victor Plahte Tschudi
- Architects, Antiquarians, and the Rise of the Image in Renaissance Guidebooks to Ancient Rome / Anna Bortolozzi
- Fioravante Martinelli's Roma ricercata nel suo sito and his "lettore forastiero" / Stefano Fogelberg Rota
- "Authors of degenerated Renaissance known as Baroque". The Baedeker Effect and the Arts: Shortcuts to Artistic Appreciation in Nineteenth-Century Rome / Sabrina Norlander Eliasson
- Mental Maps and the Topography of the Mind. A Swedish Guide to the Roman Centuries / Frederick Whitling
- Ellen Rydelius' Rom på 8 dagar (Rome in 8 Days). A Story of Change and Success / Carina Burman
- Codifying the Genre of Early Modern Guidebooks: Oskar Pollak, Ludwig Schudt and the Creation of Le Guide di Roma (1930) / Arnold Witte, Eva van Kemenade, Niels Graaf and Joëlle Terburg
- Appendix I: Must-See Monuments
- the Colosseum in Guidebooks through the Centuries / Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota
- Appendix II: Itineraries through Trastevere from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century / Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota.