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Source Description
The mid-19th century was a time of immense change in Florence and throughout Tuscany. This map was produced at the very end of the reign of the Dukes of Tuscany over the city of Florence. The splendor of the duchy is much in evidence here -- from the huge palace and extensive gardens of the Pitti Palace in the north to the imposing fortress of the Castello San Giovan Battista at the south. It was, in part, this very splendor and extravagance that inspired the brief popular revolution in 1849 in the wake of similar uprisings in France. Although many of the streets on this map are still found in today's Florence, the modern city extends far beyond the boundaries outlined here.
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Document identity
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x633f9269
label
Pianta della città di Firenze
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
id
x633f9269
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Pianta della città di Firenze
description
The mid-19th century was a time of immense change in Florence and throughout Tuscany. This map was produced at the very end of the reign of the Dukes of Tuscany over the city of Florence. The splendor of the duchy is much in evidence here -- from the huge palace and extensive gardens of the Pitti Palace in the north to the imposing fortress of the Castello San Giovan Battista at the south. It was, in part, this very splendor and extravagance that inspired the brief popular revolution in 1849 in the wake of similar uprisings in France. Although many of the streets on this map are still found in today's Florence, the modern city extends far beyond the boundaries outlined here.
date
["1847"]
year
1847
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Italian
identifierLocal
06_01_000073
creators
Molini, Giuseppe, 1772-1856
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Metropolitan areas--Italy--Florence
Florence (Italy)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Europe
Firenze
Florence
Italy
Tuscany
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
Italy
city
Florence
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Firenze
publisher
[s.n.]
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
43.766667
schema:longitude
11.25
extent
1 map ; 53 x 70 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Oriented with north towards the bottom right.
Exhibited in “Faces and Places,” at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, October 2003 - September 2004. MB (BRL)
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no
dcId
x633f9269
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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