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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Ponte Vecchio
    sub title: architecture, politics, and civic identity in late medieval Florence
  name:
    name part: Flanigan, Theresa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 26 x 26 cm.
  abstract: "Famous today for the shops lining its sloped street, the Ponte Vecchio is the last premodern bridge spanning the Arno River at Florence and one of the few remaining examples of the once more prevalent urbanized bridge type. Drawing from early Florentine chronicles and previously unpublished archival documents, this book traces the history of the Ponte Vecchio, focusing on the current bridge's construction after the flood of 1333. Much of the Ponte Vecchio's original fourteenth-century appearance is now obscured beneath later accretions, often mistakenly interpreted as original to its medieval character. To the contrary, as argued in this book and illustrated by new reconstruction drawings, the mid-trecento Ponte Vecchio's vaulted substructure was technically advanced, its urban superstructure was designed in accordance with contemporary Florentine urban planning strategies, and its "beautiful and honorable" appearance was maintained by government regulations. The documents also reveal new information about the commission and rental of its famous shops. Relying on these sources, this study offers a more complete history of the Ponte Vecchio, adding significantly to what is currently known about the bridge's patronage and construction, as well as the aims of civic architecture and urban planning in late medieval Florence."--
  table of contents: From Origins to Contested Site: The Ponte Vecchio and Villani's 'Myth of Florence' -- The Politics of Bridge Building: Civic Patronage and Post-Flood Repair, 1333-1339 -- The Commission and Building History of the Ponte Vecchio, 1339-1346 -- Modo et Forma: The 'Manner and Form' of the Ponte Vecchio's Construction -- A Beautiful and Honorable Bridge': The Ponte Vecchio, Medieval Aesthetics, and the Politics of Urban Design -- 'For the Honor and Value of the People and Commune of Florence': The Shops on the Ponte Vecchio and Their Well-Regulated Order, 1346-1495 -- The Ponte Vecchio after 1495 -- Appendices: I. Chronicle Accounts of the Flood of 4 November 1333 ; II. Ponte Vecchio Documents, 972 to Flood of 1333 ; III. Ponte Vecchio Documents, 1333 Flood to 1495 ; IV. Accounts of the Completion of the Ponte Vecchio.
  note: Theresa Flanigan.
  note: Includes bibiographical references (pages 249-256) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    geographic: Ponte Vecchio (Florence, Italy)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Bridges
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Florence
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Florence (Italy)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Florence (Italy)
    topic: Buildings, structures, etc
  subject:
    topic: Ponts
    geographic: Italie
    geographic: Florence
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    geographic: Florence (Italie)
    topic: Histoire
  classification: DG758.3.P66 F53 2024
  classification: NA350
  classification: 723-724
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Architecture and the arts in early modern Italy ; v. 5
  identifier: 9781912554683
  identifier: 1912554682
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240623
    record change date: 20250318223756.7
    record identifier: in00005611653
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng