Describes how a fifteenth-century goldsmith and clockmaker, Filippo Brunelleschi, came up with a unique design for the dome to crown Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore. Index.
Describes how a fifteenth-century goldsmith and clockmaker, Filippo Brunelleschi, came up with a unique design for the dome to crown Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore.
Ross King, high Renaissance adventure invades the brickwork of the rising dome...
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(Walker & Company, March 15, 1999)
During the 25 years he spent building the monument he lost his bed in a freak flood and sank 100 tons of fine, white marble in a riverboat of his own design... scandals and pranks