Table of Contents

pp 5-6

Preface

pp 7-8

Introduction

pp 9-16

Part I - The City as a Performative Space in Early Modern Italy

pp 17-18

1 - Marketplace Encounters: Social Mixing on the Streets of Early Modern Florence

pp 19-38

2 - “Noble Edifices”: The Urban Image of Papal Rome, 1417—1667

pp 39-64

3 - Perspective Cities : Staging Transferable Spaces in Learned Comedy

pp 65-80

4 - The Lure of Shopping : The Mercerie in Early Modern Venice and the City as a Permanent Mall

pp 81-110

5 - Ancient Magnificence and Modern Design: Roman Architecture and Identity in the Printed Works of Alessandro Specchi (1666—1729) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720—1778)

pp 111-136

Part II - The City in Times of Crisis: Urban Spaces in Modern Italy.

pp 137-138

6 - Le piazze d’Italia : De Chirico’s Prophetic Vision of Public Space in Destination Italy

pp 139-156

7 - Colonie Architecture and Fascism’s Cult of Youth

pp 157-182

8 - Fare la vita grigia: The Industrial City of Italo Calvino and Luciano Bianciardi

pp 183-204

Part III - The City as a Space of Conflict: Landscapes of Late Capitalism

pp 205-206

9 - Il mondo è meglio non vederlo che vederlo : Naples as Urban Dystopia in Un paio di occhiali

pp 207-224

10 - Narratives of a ‘City Under Siege’ : Bodies and Discourses of the 1977 Movement in Bologna

pp 225-244

11 - Exploring Urban Space : Terzani’s In Asia (1965—1997)

pp 245-264

Index

pp 265-271