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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The City as a Performative Space in Early Modern Italy
1. Marketplace Encounters: Social Mixing on the Streets of Early Modern Florence
April D. Weintritt
2. "Noble Edifices": The Urban Image of Papal Rome, 1417-1667
Matthew Knox Averett
3. Perspective Cities: Staging Transferable Spaces in Learned Comedy
Lucia Gemmani
4. The Lure of Shopping: The Mercerie in Early Modern Venice and the City as a Permanent Mall
Isabella Cecchini
5. Ancient Magnificence and Modern Design
Roman Architecture and Identity in the Printed Works of Alessandro Specchi (1666-1729) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Abbey Hafer
Part II: The City in Times of Crisis: Urban Spaces in Modern Italy.
6. Le piazze d'Italia: De Chirico's Prophetic Vision of Public Space in Destination Italy
Julianne VanWagenen
7. Colonie Architecture and Fascism's Cult of Youth
Diana Garvin
8. Fare la vita grigia: The Industrial City of Italo Calvino and Luciano Bianciardi
Samantha Gillen
Part III: The City as a Space of Conflict: Landscapes of Late Capitalism
9. Il mondo è meglio non vederlo che vederlo: Naples as Urban Dystopia in Un paio di occhiali
Brian Tholl
10. Narratives of a 'City Under Siege': Bodies and Discourses of the 1977 Movement in Bologna
Danila Cannamela and Achille Castaldo
11. Exploring Urban Space: Terzani's In Asia (1965-1997)
Ellen Patat
Index.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The City as a Performative Space in Early Modern Italy
1. Marketplace Encounters: Social Mixing on the Streets of Early Modern Florence
April D. Weintritt
2. "Noble Edifices": The Urban Image of Papal Rome, 1417-1667
Matthew Knox Averett
3. Perspective Cities: Staging Transferable Spaces in Learned Comedy
Lucia Gemmani
4. The Lure of Shopping: The Mercerie in Early Modern Venice and the City as a Permanent Mall
Isabella Cecchini
5. Ancient Magnificence and Modern Design
Roman Architecture and Identity in the Printed Works of Alessandro Specchi (1666-1729) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Abbey Hafer
Part II: The City in Times of Crisis: Urban Spaces in Modern Italy.
6. Le piazze d'Italia: De Chirico's Prophetic Vision of Public Space in Destination Italy
Julianne VanWagenen
7. Colonie Architecture and Fascism's Cult of Youth
Diana Garvin
8. Fare la vita grigia: The Industrial City of Italo Calvino and Luciano Bianciardi
Samantha Gillen
Part III: The City as a Space of Conflict: Landscapes of Late Capitalism
9. Il mondo è meglio non vederlo che vederlo: Naples as Urban Dystopia in Un paio di occhiali
Brian Tholl
10. Narratives of a 'City Under Siege': Bodies and Discourses of the 1977 Movement in Bologna
Danila Cannamela and Achille Castaldo
11. Exploring Urban Space: Terzani's In Asia (1965-1997)
Ellen Patat
Index.