House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo

by Allison Levy

Book Overview

This book tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated fa ade. The house, beginning with its piecemeal assemblage by one of the richest men in Florence in the fifteenth century, has witnessed endless drama, from the butchering of its interior to a courtyard suicide to champagne-fueled orgies on the eve of World War I to a recent murder on its third floor. When the author, an art historian, serendipitously discovers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788313607
• ISBN13: 9781788313605
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Tauris Parke
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"