The Italian Piazza Transformed

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

About the Reconstruction Diagrams

Introduction

Part I: The Production of Order

1 (Re)constructing the Piazza del Duomo

2 (Re)constructing the Communal Piazza

Part II: The Piazza and Public Life

3 The Legislation of Order

4 The Eloquent Piazza

Epilogue: Parma’s Spatial Practice Compared

Appendixes

I: On Measurement, Module, and Geometry in Medieval Parma

II: The Communal Buildings of Parma: Evidence and Interpretation

III: Salimbene de Adam’s Account of Parma’s Late Thirteenth-Century Architectural Projects

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“In this splendidly illustrated, intelligently designed, and elegantly written book, Areli Marina establishes herself as a leading new voice in medieval Italian urbanistic studies.”

—Gary Radke, Speculum