Die Revolte des Patriziats. Der toskanische Adelsliberalismus im Risorgimento.

Prefazione di S. Soldani. Traduzione di L. Melissari. Firenze, Olschki Ed. 2005, cm.17x24, xxvi-550 pp., Coll. Biblioteca storica toscana - Serie I, 47. Sulla base di una imponente documentazione l’autore ricostruisce la dura lotta di una parte della nobiltà toscana per riconquistare effettivi spazi di governo contro l’invadenza dell’assolutismo burocratico. La vicenda è particolarmente significativa sia This is a history of the hard-fought struggle of the Tuscan nobility to regain a meaningful place in the midst of the invasive bureaucratic absolutism of the government of the Granduca. The case of Tuscany is particularly significant because of the promin

Firenze, Giuntina 2004, cm.13x21, pp.255, brossura copertina figurata.

Fotografie di Giorgio Nimatallah. Novara, Ist.Geografico De Agostini 1983, cm.17x25, pp.75, num.ill.e tavv.a col.nt. legatura ed.cop.fig.a col. Coll.Documenti d'Arte.

Milano, Mondadori 2004, cm.13x21, pp.288, 27 figg.bn.in tavv.ft. brossura copertina figurata. Coll.Oscar Storia.

Firenze, Pontecorboli Editore 2020, cm.14,5x21, pp.88, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. This elusive monument is classic, early Christian, Byzantine, Lombard or Romanesque? Is it really an ideal model of perfect unity or has been transformed in several times? And moreover: it’s born as a true baptistery or – perhaps – it was once a ‘Temple of Mars’? Although studied for centuries in every aspect by a crowd of scholars and historians, the topic of the origins of the Florentine Baptistery of San Giovanni remains debated and obscure, since the authors are divided between those who believe it ancient and those who medieval. Thus, being it still not related with certainty to a specific historical context, the «bel San Giovanni» loved by Dante does not find a ascertained and firm placement in the texts, and it is not even clear the role it played in the birth of the Florentine Renaissance. This book tries to give an answer to the lasting problem in a synthetic view that resumes documents and researches, pointing most of all to what the architecture suggests.