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Engineering the Eternal City : infrastructure, topography, and the culture of knowledge in late sixteenth-century Rome
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ISBN: 9780226543796 9780226591285 022659128X Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press,

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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the “engineering pope” Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before. This portrait of an early modern Rome examines the many conflicts, failures, and successes that shaped the city, as decision-makers tried to control not only Rome’s structures and infrastructures but also the people who lived there. Taking up visual images of the city created during the same period—most importantly in maps and urban representations, this book shows how in a time before the development of modern professionalism and modern bureaucracies, there was far more wide-ranging conversation among people of various backgrounds on issues of engineering and infrastructure than there is in our own times. Physicians, civic leaders, jurists, cardinals, popes, and clerics engaged with painters, sculptors, architects, printers, and other practitioners as they discussed, argued, and completed the projects that remade Rome.


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The ruin of the Eternal City : antiquity and preservation in Renaissance Rome
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ISBN: 9780199766895 0199766894 0199896747 0199877467 9780199896745 9780199877461 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.

The modern world-system : capitalist agriculture and the origins of the european world-economy in the sixteenth century
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ISBN: 0127859195 0127859209 0127859217 012785925X 0127859268 9780127859194 9780127859200 Year: 1974 Volume: 1 Publisher: New York, NY ; San Francisco, CA ; London : Academic Press,


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La fable mystique : XVIe-XVIIe siècle
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ISBN: 2070209741 9782070141395 207014139X 9782070209743 Year: 1982 Publisher: Paris : Gallimard,

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L'écriture de ce volume ayant été interrompue par la mort de l'historien en 1986, l'éditrice de son oeuvre L. Giard réunit un chapitre inédit en partie et des articles consacrés à une analyse historique de la science mystique se faisant jour dans les écrits de mystiques tels Nicolas de Cues, Jean de la Croix, Jean-Joseph Surin, Thérèse d'Avila, etc.


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Nouvelle revue du XVIe siècle.
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ISSN: 02941414 Publisher: Paris : Droz,

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