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Author: Katherine Wentworth Rinne
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0300155301

The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City

In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain architecture helped turn a medieval backwater into the preeminent city of early modern Europe. Download The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Supported by the author's extensive topographical research, this book presents a unified vision of the city that links improvements to public and private water systems with political, religious, and social change. Between 1560 and 1630, in a spectacular burst of urban renewal, Rome's religious and civil authorities sponsored the construction of aqueducts, private and public fountains for drinking, washing, and industry, and the magnificent ce Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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