People of Florence: A Study in Locality

252pp, including maps of Florence. In greenish-beige cloth-covered boards. Boards gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, small rip in cloth at base of spine. Text block edges very slightly foxed, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original worn and edge-chipped dust jacket with minor loss at base of spine and a couple of short, closed tears at corners. Neither a guide book or a social history – although it serves well as both – People of Florence is a portrait of a city and its people which has not greatly changed over 600 years. art, Architecture, flowers, trees, song birds, theatre, food and drink, public ceremonies and games, its all here, and the sober reader will also find thought in relation to the individual liberties of Florence and the bureaucratic controls of the Government in Rome.