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Blue Guide Florence (9th edn) (Blue Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Alta Macadam
Publisher: Blue Guides
Category: Book
List Price: £14.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 154005
Media: Paperback
Edition: 9Rev Ed
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 190513102X
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781905131020
ASIN: 190513102X
Publication Date: April 4, 2005
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Florence Understood September 29, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
It wasn't my first visit to Florence, but it was the one I shall remember the best. The circumstances were not perfect - reading in every type of shop while my better half availed herself of the sales at the start of August. Seats were short, so half of what I read was read standing up. But I was gripped by my book - the Blue Guide to Florence.
It is the ideal companion to anyone who is attracted to Florence not by the desire to "tick it" off the list of world famous tourist destinations, but who wants to understand what makes Florence special, who made it so special, why and how. In particular the book and the town together give a window on the Early & Mid Renaissance period in which humanity appears to have taken not merely a leap forward, but seem suddenly to have taken a fundamentally more difficult step: after many many centuries in which change was probably something to be afraid of and the status quo was revered, change was welcomed and became the norm.
What makes the book special is not merely the level of detail, but the context and comment which the writers build around their subject - be it a particular place, an object or a topic such as architecture, fine art, politics, economy. Written by people who could clearly write whole books about their individual subject, the reader benefits from a multitude of pithy insights without having to wade through academic noise and become experts themselves. Reading the Blue Guide reveals to the lazy reader (like myself normally) what they have misunderstood (or missed) when they rely on dumbed-down picture-book guides.
The Blue Guide to Florence is the perfect guide for someone who has more than just a superficial interest in the place, and who doesn't need a guide to indulging themselves in food or shopping (although it covers some of that too). Thoroughly recommendable - even if you have to read it standing up!
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