Equipped with all you need to know on the history and traditions of the Chianti region, you will be guided on half-day or full-day drives out from Radda in Chianti and Gaiole in Chianti.
This book discusses, amongst others, works by Giotto, Bernardo Daddi, Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, Michelangelo and Andrea del Sarto Pontormo.
Following in the footsteps of the painters and engravers who portrayed Florence and its dome, Giovanni Fanelli pays a homage to Brunelleschi's masterpiece with a fine collection of drawings: a tribute to the great Renaissance architect from a scholar who has devoted his life to the study of urban landscape.
This book presents the city's best-known recipes shorn of purist excesses and completes them with lots of useful tips on how to get the best results out of each dish.
This guidebook strikes a balance between text and photographs, offering an original solution to the visitor's queries.
This is a traveller's journal, the result of many visits which the author - a well known Milanese graphic designer - has made to Florence at different times and under the sway of different moods.
Franco Cardini distils the essence of countless scholarly studies on the subject in this richly illustrated volume.
This book portrays the singular and everyday Tuscany as seen by a tranquil English Traveller, a lover of art and fine food, prodigal with adjectives, full of good sense.
This book captures, in a very individual way, the Florence that casts a spell over nearly every visitor.
This title seeks to tie together the region's famous products, it's eventful colourful history and the sumptuous art works that comprise what is the finest collection in the world, with other characteristics in order to grasp what derives from them today, namely a style of life, an existential unicum.
The Medici are pr4obably the best-known and most illustrious Italian family, one that produced two popes, two Queens of France and such a multi- faceted and extraordinary figure as Lorenzo the Magnificent. Their name is inextricably linked to the history of Florence. This concise and brilliant book recounts the history of this famous
This two-part volume offers an innovative analysis and interpretation of Brunelleschi's masterpiece.
This is a colourful and entertaining survival kit for teenagers visiting (or living in) Florence. It was thought up, written and designed in collaboration with Amici Musei Fiorentini.
Features twelve illustrations and accompanying text in verse that chart the nighttime journey of an adventurous kid and his toy Virgil.