Rome and the Guidebook Tradition : : From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century.

• Author: Blennow, Anna.
• TeilnehmendeR: Fogelberg Rota, Stefano.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- The authors -- Introduction -- 1. Wanderers and Wonders. The Medieval Guidebooks to Rome -- 2. Two Sixteenth-Century Guidebooks and the Bibliotopography of Rome -- 3. Architects, Antiquarians, and the Rise of the Image in Renaissance Guidebooks to Ancient Rome -- 4. Fioravante Martinelli's Roma ricercata nel suo sito and his "lettore forastiero" -- 5. "Authors of degenerated Renaissance known as Baroque". The Baedeker Effect and the Arts: Shortcuts to Artistic Appreciation in Nineteenth-Century Rome -- 6. Mental Maps and the Topography of the Mind. A Swedish Guide to the Roman Centuries -- 7. Ellen Rydelius' Rom på 8 dagar (Rome in 8 Days). A Story of Change and Success -- 8. Codifying the Genre of Early Modern Guidebooks: Oskar Pollak, Ludwig Schudt and the Creation of Le Guide di Roma (1930) -- Appendix I: Must-See Monuments - the Colosseum in Guidebooks through the Centuries -- Appendix II: Itineraries through Trastevere from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century -- Name Index -- Place Index.