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2015

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials, Book
Title:	The guide to essential Italy / the Teaching Company ; Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett.
Publisher, Date:	Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses : The Teaching Company, [2015] ©2015
Description:	6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 course guidebook (293 pages : photographs ; 19 cm). digital optical NTSC video file DVD video
Summary:	"This epic travel adventure from The Great Courses and Smithsonian's travel arm, Smithsonian Journeys, delivers a feast of cultural and historical riches."--From container.
Series:	Great courses. Better living. Travel Smithsonian journeys Great courses (DVD). Better living.
Subjects:	Italy -- Description and travel. Italy -- Guidebooks. Italy -- History.
Genre:	Educational films. Filmed lectures.
Other Author:	Bartlett, Kenneth R., speaker. Bartlett, Kenneth R., author. Guide to essential Italy: course guidebook. Teaching Company, production company.
Other Title:	Guide to essential Italy: course guidebook.
Notes:	Accompanied by the course guidebook of the same title: The guide to essential Italy: course guidebook / Kenneth R. Bartlett, Ph. D. Published by the Great Courses; copyright The Teaching Company, 2015. "Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, University of Toronto"--Course guidebook cover and DVD container. Taught by Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, University of Toronto. DVD video, Dolby digital, NTSC. Soundtrack in English; course guidebook in English.
Contents:	Rome: the eternal city -- The Capitoline and the Colosseum -- Imperial palaces of the Palatine Hill -- Pompeii: a city frozen in time -- The Roman Forum -- Along the Via Sacra to the Capitoline -- The Via del Corso and Princely Palaces -- The Trevi Fountain and Baroqua Rome -- Above and beyond the Spanish Steps -- At the bend of the Tiber -- The Pantheon to Campo dei Fiori -- Piazza Farnese to the Ara Pacis -- Piazza del Popolo to San Clemente -- The Vatican and St. Peter's Basilica -- Orvieto, Siena, and San Gimignano -- Florence: politics in art and architecture -- From the Piazza del Duomo to San Marco -- San Croce and the Pazzi Chapel -- En route to the Ponte Vecchio -- The Pitti Palace -- The Oltrarno -- Walking to Santa Maria Novella -- From Santa Maria Novella to San Lorenzo -- The Medici legacy -- The Ognissanti, palaces, parks, and villas -- Romantic views: San Miniato and Fiesole -- Arezzo, Perugia, and Assisi -- Venice: the center of power -- The drawing room of Europe: Piazza San Marco -- The Ducal Palace -- Venetian civilization -- Along the Giudecca and Grand Canals -- The Upper Canal and San Marco on foot -- The Rialto and Sestiere San Polo -- Sestiere Castello and the Outer Islands.
ISBN:	1629971928 9781629971926
Publisher Number:	ID3032A-01 PD3032A
Other Number:	919735051
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	2
Control Number:	556690
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Call Number:	GREAT DVD 914.5 Guide to

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