Engineering the eternal city : infrastructure, topography, and the culture of knowledge in late sixteenth-century Rome / Pamela O. Long.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The university of Chicago press, 2018.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 369 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Money, weights and measures. Author's note. Introduction: Rome: portrait of the late sixteenth-century city. 1. Roubled waters: the Tiber river 2. The streets and sewers of Rome 3. Repairing the acqua vergine: conflict and process 4. Cotested infrastructure 5. Roman topography and images of the city 6. Maps, guidebooks and the world of print 7. Reforming the streets 8. Engineering spectable and urban reality. Conclusion: a city in transition. Acknowledgments. List of abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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