Title "When all of Rome was under construction" : the building process in baroque Rome / Dorothy Metzger Habel

Published University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 232 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm Series Rome perspectives. Contents The urban redevelopment of Piazza Colonna I : "senza spesa ne aggravare alcuno" -- The urban redevelopment of Piazza Colonna II : "il negotio restava aggiustato" -- The repercussions of building Piazza S. Pietro : "in tempo che tutta Roma era in fabrica" -- Lorenzo Pizzatti and his "Roza riforma" : a pavonazzo speaks up "tutto per ben publico." Summary "Analyzes the politics and economics of architecture and the building process in seventeenth-century Rome. Explores topics ranging from the financing of construction to the availability of materials and personnel"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-223) and index Subject Alexander VII, Pope, 1599-1667. Plazas -- Italy -- Rome -- Design and construction -- History -- 17th century. City planning -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 17th century. Architecture and state -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- 17th century. SUBJECT Piazza Colonna (Rome, Italy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97005269 -- History -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006123 Piazza San Pietro (Vatican City) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101910 -- History -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006123 LC no. 2012037265 ISBN 9780271055732 (cloth : alk. paper) 0271055731 cloth : alk. paper)

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