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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. Naples is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. Their ancestors came from all over the early Mediterranean to the wide bay and its islands, shadowed by a dormant volcano. Not all of them found what they were looking for, but they made a great and terribly human city.Peter Robb's Street Fight in Naples ranges across nearly three thousand years of Neapolitan life and art, from the first Greek landings in Italy to his own less auspicious arrival thirty-something years ago.In 1503 Naples became the Mediterranean capital of Spain's world empire and the base for the Christian struggle with Islam. It was a European metropolis matched only by Paris and Istanbul, an extraordinary concentration of military power, lavish consumption, poverty and desperation. As the…
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- Title Street Fight in Naples
- Author Robb, Peter
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Allen & Unwin, Sydney
- Date 2010
- ISBN 9781741754124
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Street Fight in Naples: A Book of Art and Insurrection
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Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2010 The dust jacket has a little wear. There is minor tanning on the edges of the book. 396 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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