This beautiful book, about a tiny but unequalled city, is, in the end, an odd mixture. Despite its subtitle, The Story of a Renaissance City, it is only in a handful of fine colour photographs and a few hurried words at the end that it actually depicts the fabric of the Renaissance city. For the city depicted here is the culture of courtly life, which, for a terribly short century up until 1523, existed within its wonderful ducal palace.
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