A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai.
Map of Florence List of Illustrations Timeline of principal events Author’s Note Preface Prologue Piano Terra Chapter One: The Merchant Primo Piano Chapter Two: The Opportunists Secondo Piano Chapter Three: The Heir Aberrant Terzo Piano Chapter Four: The Suicide Bride Quarto Piano Chapter Five: The Salonnière Quinto Piano Chapter Six: The Tenant Sesto Piano Epilogue Acknowledgments Text Permissions Notes Bibliography Index
Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University. An art historian, educated at Bryn Mawr College, Allison has taught in the US, Italy, and the UK. The author and editor of four books on early modern Italy and Europe, she is also General Editor of the book series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700, published by Amsterdam University Press.
One of the best chapters in the book brings [the relationship
between young America and old Florence] vividly to life.
*Literary Review*
‘Levy’s writing is pacy and … witty, and she deploys a wide range
of materials well’
*TLS*
House of Secrets is revelatory … Levy is a thorough and thoroughly
engaging storyteller, leaving no stone of the Palazzo Rucellai
unexamined … a whole memory palace embodied by the Palazzo Rucellai
for which Levy — author, art historian, inhabitant — is the ideal
guide.
*Hyperallergic*
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