To borrow a much-vaunted phrase from the art world: I'm not an expert on architecture, but I know what I like.This is an exciting account of how the word's largest Renaissance dome was designed and built.
I wish I'd read this book before I visited Florence and gazed up at Il Duomo. It was a dramatic experience, and the icing on the cake would have been to know what it took to build it.
The book also extends the list of Italian words you know (pasta, pizza, macaroni, ferrari, etc. - now you know that Il Duomo means "The Dome").
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