Florence A Portrait

"...'Florence, A Portrait' offers a wonderfully heterodox perspective on the city we thought we all knew....For [its] consistent challenges to received opinion, for its handsome visual embrace of architectural nonesuches like the Boboli coffee house..., and for its irreverent but accurate implication that most of us enjoy Florence for its stolid bourgeois cosiness..., this book will find its detractors. For myself, I can't remember having read a more imaginative, intelligent, or compelling account of Florence's meaning and making, or one which so irresistibly urged me to look at the city and look again."Levey, Michael is the author of 'Florence A Portrait' with ISBN 9780674306585 and ISBN 0674306589.