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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shrady, Nicholas. Tilt. New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003 (OCoLC)606994648 |
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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Shrady |
| ISBN: | 0743229266 9780743229265 |
| OCLC Number: | 52086370 |
| Description: | xxiii, 161 p. : ill., 1 map ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- A Pisan Time Line -- Commissione #17 -- Afloat on a Blood-Red Sea -- Booty Transformed -- Terreni Limosi -- Unfinished Business -- The Stuff of Myth -- Of Poets and Men of Progress -- The Tiltin' Hilton -- Step This Way, Signore e Signori |
| Responsibility: | Nicholas Shrady. |
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Abstract:
A chronicle of the famous structure notes its long construction postponement after the erection of the first four stories in 1173; its survival of earthquakes, war, and tourism; and the contributions of Galileo and other figures.
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