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The Renaissance perfected : architecture, spectacle, and tourism in Fascist Italy / D. Medina Lasansky.

Author: Lasansky, D. Medina.

Imprint:University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004.

Descriptionxliii, 380 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27cm.

Note:Aesthetic dissonance -- The love affair with Tuscany -- Mechanisms of display -- Urban politics: the Fascist rediscovery of medieval Arezzo -- Urban theater: performance, virility, and race -- Accelerating accessibility: architecture for mass consumption -- History as spectacle: the partita a scacchi in Marostica -- Fascist strategies.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-358) and index.



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