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Description: Palazzo Pretorio (now Palazzo d’Arnolfo)

TitlePalazzo Pretorio (now Palazzo d’Arnolfo)

Creator nameArnolfo di Cambio

Creator name (description)Photograph by Fabrizio Nevola

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleArchitect

Creation datec. 1200–1300

Object typeArchitecture

MaterialsUnknown

LocationSan Giovanni Valdarno, Italy

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArchitecture, MedievalPalaces--ItalyArchitecture--Italy--Tuscany

Statuson the central piazza (now piazza Cavour)

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Chapter 2. Everyday Life on the Streets: Sociability and the Public Realm

Fabrizio Nevola

Street Life in Renaissance Italy

Antonio Manetti’s well-known Novella del grasso legnaiuolo (‘The novella of the fat woodcarver’), set in Florence in 1409, describes the elaborate trick played upon the unlucky intarsia master Manetto Ammannatini, nicknamed ‘il Grasso’, by a brigata (‘gang’) of his friends, led by Filippo Brunelleschi. The story takes place in an area no more...

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Fabrizio Nevola

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.67-97

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00290.2

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22182&redirecttoanchor=74820

Chapter subject tags:Architecture, Renaissance--ItalyUrban ecology (Sociology)Venice (Italy)Florence (Italy)--HistoryVenice (Italy)--HistoryPublic spaces--ItalyCity and town life--ItalyCity planning--Italy--HistorySiena (Italy)--HistoryPictorial maps, Renaissance

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