The beauties of the city of Florence : a guidebook of 1591 / Francesco Bocchi ; introduced, translated and annotated by Thomas Frangenberg & Robert Williams.

Text in English, translated from Italian.

"The text presented here, Francesco Bocchi's Le Bellezze della città di Fiorenza (The Beauties of the City of Florence), originally published in 1591, is one of the most remarkable of Renaissance writings on art and thus an especially valuable document of the culture within which and for which Renaissance art was made. It is not exactly the first guidebook, nor is it entirely an art guidebook in the modern sense of the word, but it marks an important step in the history of guidebook literature, perhaps the definitive step in the formation of the modern genre."--P. 3.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-270) and index.

Beauties of the city of Florence -- San Gallo Gate -- The Roman Gate -- Del Prato Gate near Ognissanti -- San Niccolo Gate -- San Miniato Gate.