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Tilt : a skewed history of the Tower of Pisa / Nicholas Shrady.

Title
Tilt : a skewed history of the Tower of Pisa / Nicholas Shrady.
Author
Shrady, Nicholas.
Publication
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003.

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Description
xxiii, 161 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
A chronicle of the famous structure notes its long construction postponement after the erection of the first four stories in 1173; its survival of earthquakes, war, and tourism; and the contributions of Galileo and other figures.
Subject
  • Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy)
  • Pisa (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc
  • Pisa (Italy) > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Book bound to stand at a slant.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction -- A Pisan Time Line -- Commissione #17 -- Afloat on a Blood-Red Sea -- Booty Transformed -- Terreni Limosi -- Unfinished Business -- The Stuff of Myth -- Of Poets and Men of Progress -- The Tiltin' Hilton -- Step This Way, Signore e Signori.
ISBN
0743229266
LCCN
^^2003050460
OCLC
  • 52086370
  • SCSB-12909685
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library