This short paper underlines the historical and critical frameworks of the collection of articles “Tales of the City: Outsiders’ Descriptions of Cities in the Early Modern Period”, where the Outsiders (artists, ambassadors, merchants, bankers, scholars, architects – to name just a few) are observers immersed in environments quite alien to their own. Their descriptive texts, quite always conceived for a private reading and full of details concerning the most important monuments but also constructions projects and urban developments, offer complimentary points of view to that of sources such as chronicles, tax accounts and legislation, that were produced by inner-residents, and that are widely used by scholars of urban history.
This short paper underlines the historical and critical frameworks of the collection of articles “Tales of the City: Outsiders’ Descriptions of Cities in the Early Modern Period”, where the Outsiders (artists, ambassadors, merchants, bankers, scholars, architects – to name just a few) are observers immersed in environments quite alien to their own. Their descriptive texts, quite always conceived for a private reading and full of details concerning the most important monuments but also constructions projects and urban developments, offer complimentary points of view to that of sources such as chronicles, tax accounts and legislation, that were produced by inner-residents, and that are widely used by scholars of urban history.
Introduction / Bardati, Flaminia; Nevola, Fabrizio; Renzulli, Eva. - In: CITTÀ E STORIA. - ISSN 1828-6364. - STAMPA. - 7:1(2012), pp. 3-7.
Introduction
BARDATI, Flaminia;
2012
Abstract
This short paper underlines the historical and critical frameworks of the collection of articles “Tales of the City: Outsiders’ Descriptions of Cities in the Early Modern Period”, where the Outsiders (artists, ambassadors, merchants, bankers, scholars, architects – to name just a few) are observers immersed in environments quite alien to their own. Their descriptive texts, quite always conceived for a private reading and full of details concerning the most important monuments but also constructions projects and urban developments, offer complimentary points of view to that of sources such as chronicles, tax accounts and legislation, that were produced by inner-residents, and that are widely used by scholars of urban history.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
