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The Noisy Renaissance - Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (Paperback)
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The Noisy Renaissance - Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life (Paperback)
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From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling
chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not
just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the
dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy
Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon
in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society.
Analyzing a range of documentary and literary evidence, art and
architectural historian Niall Atkinson creates an "acoustic
topography" of Florence. The dissemination of official messages,
the rhythm of prayer, and the murmur of rumor and gossip combined
to form a soundscape that became a foundation in the creation and
maintenance of the urban community just as much as the city's
physical buildings. Sound in this space triggered a wide variety of
social behaviors and spatial relations: hierarchical, personal,
communal, political, domestic, sexual, spiritual, and religious. By
exploring these rarely studied soundscapes, Atkinson shows Florence
to be both an exceptional and an exemplary case study of urban
conditions in the early modern period.
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