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In the words of its author, this engaging book ‘tells of the shadows of objects and of images in the brain and, as such, of the only realities that cannot entirely escape from appropriation’ (p. ix). The object in question is Florence, understood both as a material place and as a mythical construction.

This text book aims to cover 150 years of European history from a perspective which desperately needs coverage: the perspective of the city.