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Contents
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Journey into the Noisy Renaissance
Chapter 1: The Acoustic Art of City-Building
Chapter 2: Florentine Soundscapes
Chapter 3: Sound, Space, and Meaning in Renaissance Florence
Chapter 4: Suoni, Voci, Rumori: Listening to the City
Chapter 5: Sonic Discord, Urban Disorder
Epilogue: Ephemerality, Durability, and Architectural History
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“Provides the reader with a refreshingly democratizing study of Florentine sonic life. Seeking out forgotten, discordant and noisy sounds and sensory experiences, The Noisy Renaissance draws our attention to the complex interplay of sound, space and the body in the streets and squares of early modern Florence. In doing so, it heralds the emergence of ‘noise’ as a valuable new object of historical enquiry in Renaissance studies.”
—Emanuela Vai, Art History
