|
|
Tour
Bologna
Bologna Hotel Deals
Find the best deal, compare prices and read what other travelers have to say at TripAdvisor
 Bologna
(Footprint Pocket Handbooks S.)
Tour Bologna. The second edition of our popular mini guide to
help you get the best out of Bologna. Covering the city itself,
it looks outside the city to the popular excursions: the Appenine
villages, Parma, Modena, Ferrara, Imola, Ravenna and Rimini.
With streets like embroidered cloth, threaded with the arches
of continuous colonnades, the heart of Bolgona is a giant cloister.
The city is littered with breathtaking monuments and masterpieces
all of which are readily accessible. If this were not mouth-watering
enough Bologna is the food capital of Italy and renowed for
its fast cars.
 The
Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State
A detailed history, from the mid-thirteenth to the early sixteenth
century, of an Italian state, Rimini, and its ruling family,
the Malatesta. The Malatesta are best known, through the works
of Jacob Burckhardt, John Addington Symonds and others, for
their colourful contribution to the court life and culture of
renaissance Italy. There are other sides to their history of
at least comparable importance. By their representative status,
as princes of middle rank, and by their unusually long tenure
of power, the Malatesta are among the families most typical
in all its stages of Italy's Age of Despots: in their acquisition
and exercise of authority, their political career and personality,
in the circumstances of their fall. At the same time, by their
position as papal subjects, in Romagna and the March of Ancona,
their progress is inseparable from the parallel history of government
in the Papal State, first effectively founded in the same century
as Maltesta rule and consolidated, two hundred years later,
by the destruction of the Malatesta and other tyrants of central
Italy. It is the purpose of this book to investigate in detail
the origin, development and character of Maltesta government
and the causes of its overthrow, against the background of changing
relations between popes and despots, dynastic and papal signoria.
Return
To Tour Italy
|
|
