Research Catalog

Title

Vinci : the town of Leonardo : history and memories / edited by Romano Nanni, Elena Testaferrata ; [English translation by Miriam K. Barbieri].

Publication

Ospedaletto, Pisa, Italy : Pacini, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Nanni, Romano
• Testaferrata, Elena.

Description

396 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 29 cm.

Uniform Title

Vinci di Leonardo. English.

Subject

• Architecture > Vinci
• Art, Italian > Vinci
• Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 > Homes and haunts
• Vinci (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Vinci (Italy) > History

Note

• At head of title: Comune di Vinci.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-388) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

TERRITORY, INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURE -- Territory and settlements between Montalbano and Valdarno. The town of Vinci, urban structure and quality of life (15th-21st centuries) / Giuseppina Carla Romby -- Institutions and archival tradition from the 14th to the 19th century / Vanna Arrighi -- The devotion of people in the territory of Vinci / Anna Benvenuti -- Photographic interpretive essay / Amanda George -- MEMORIES OF LEONARDO -- "May the snow be brought during the summer to these hot lands ... ". Leonardo, Vinci and the Montalbano ; Leonardo's birthplace in Anchiano: origins and affirmation of a tradition / Romano Nanni -- The atmosphere of the land. Leonardo, maestro of Pontormo / Antonio Natali -- Pierino da Vinci / Marco Cianchi -- The Biblioteca Leonardina and its collection / Monica Taddei -- The fortress and the castle in the myth of Leonardo's machines: birth and history of a collection / Elena Testaferrata -- The enlargement of the museum and the new Piazza Guidi / Romano Nanni -- ART AND ARCHITECTURE -- Churches and oratories: the historical-artistic ecclesiastic patrimony in the territory of Vinci / Rosanna Caterina Proto Pisani, Gioia Romagnoli -- The villas / Gabriele Nannetti -- The villages near Vinci / Paolo Santini -- The mills of Vinci / Emanuela Ferretti -- A MODERN LOOK ON VINCI -- Vinci, an ideal source of inspiration for the painters friends of Renato Fucini / Silvestra Bietoletti -- Vinci, a journey's destination. The evolution of tourism from the end of the 19th century to today / Stefania Marvogli -- THE LAND AND ITS PRODUCTS -- Vinci and the Montalbano. Historic-geological information on the territory / Luca Ranfagni -- Dining in Vinci / Carlo Cambi, Petra Carsetti.

ISBN

8877815825

LCCN

^^2004476137

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library