The Smaller Tuscan Towns

Excerpt from The Smaller Tuscan Towns The following pages have been compiled on the principle laid down by the late Mr Grant Allen - viz. concentration on what is essential and typical. It would be impossible within the limits of a hand-book to draw attention to everything that is significant, but the aim has been to avoid any narrow rule of choice. The writers know of no good historical account of Tuscany as a whole in English. Translations of the works of Prof. Villari, the histories of Siena by E. G. Gardner, Langton Douglas and F. Schevill, as well as the books of W. Heywood, will help the traveller. Among Italian books the Dizionario of Repctti gives a concise note on every important place in Tuscany. For Lucca, the "Som-mario" of Girolamo Tommasi; for Pisa, Morrona's "Pisa Illustrata"; and for Siena, the history of Giugurta Tommasi, may be read. Among the best English books on artistic subjects are Anderson's "Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy"; Perkin's "Tuscan Sculptors"; "Italian Sculpture of the Renaissance," by L. J. Freeman; "Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance," "Florentine Painters of the Renaissance," "study and Criticism of Italian Art," 2 vols., all by B. Berenson; H. Wolfflin's "Art of the Italian Renaissance" (translation); and from the general point of view, " The Renaissance in Italy," by J. A. Symonds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.