Tafuri, Manfredo.

Interpreting the Renaissance : princes, cities, architects / Manfredo Tafuri ; translated Daniel Sherer ; foreword by K. Micchael Hays. - New Haven : Cambridge, Mass. : Yale University Press ; Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, c2006. - xxxi, 408 p., [128] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-395) and index.

A search for paradigms: project, truth, artifice -- Cives esse non licere: Nicholas V and Leon Battista Alberti -- Princes, cities, architects -- Jugum meum suave est: architecture and myth in the era of Leo X -- Roma coda mundi: the sack of Rome: rupture and continuity -- The Granada of Charles V: palace and mausoleum -- Venetian epilogue: Jacopo Sansovino from inventio to consuetudo.

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