The Building of Renaissance Florence

The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History. 'Awarded'' the Howard R. Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association.' "Always fascinating...The reader will get from Goldthwaite's book on the economics of architecture a more lively and moreauthentic impression of life in Renaissance Florence than from many more general descriptions of Florentine culture."--Felix Gilbert, 'New York Review of Books.'