Ruskin delivered these ten lectures at Oxford in 1873, beginning on the anniversary of the day the merchants of Florence deposed their Podesta and named a Captain of the People. Through Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, heraldry, marble and the idea of franchise, he links the art of the Arno valley to the civic and moral life of its cities.
Characteristically brilliant, digressive Ruskin, for readers of medieval Italy and the philosophy of art. Download the free EPUB.