Landscape influences on the development of the medieval-early Renaissance City-states of Pisa, Florence, and Siena, Italy

Landscapes and Societies: Selected Cases

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 203-221

  Martini, I Peter ^a   Sarti, Giovanni ^b   Pallecchi, Pasquino ^c   Costantini, Armando ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c SBAT Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9413-1_13     Document Type: Chapter

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