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Caferro, W. "City and Countryside in Siena in the 2nd Half of the 14th Century," Journal of Economic History 54 (March, 1994). Compares the interdependence of Siena's town and countryside with that of Florence.

Epstein, S.R. "Cities, Regions, and the Late Medieval Crisis - Sicily and Tuscany Compared," Past and Present no. 130 (Feb, 1991), 3-50.

---------. "Town and Country - Economy and Institutions in Late Medieval Italy," Economic History Review 46 (no.3, 1993), 453-77.

Falassi, Alessandro and Alan Dundes. La Terra in Piazza: An Interpretation of the Palio in Siena (1975). The place of sport in a community's life.

Friedman, David. Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages (1988).

Greif, A. "On the Political Foundations of the Late Medieval Commercial Revolution: Genoa during the 12th and 13th Centuries," Journal of Economic History 54 (June, 1994) 271-87.

Herlihy, David. Cities and Society in Medieval Italy (1980)

Howard, Deborah. The Architectural History of Venice (1981).

Hughes, D.O. "Urban Growth and Family Structure in Medieval Genoa," Past and Present 66 (1975), 3-28.

Krautheimer, Richard. Rome: Profile of a City, 312 - 1308 (1980).

Lansing, Carol. The Florentine Magnates. Lineage and Faction in a Medieval Commune (1992).

Larner, John. Culture and Society in Italy, 1290-1420 (1971).

Llewellyn, Peter. Rome in the Dark Ages (1971).

Miller, Maureen. "From Episcopal to Communal Palaces: Places and Power in Northern Italy, 1000 - 1250," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 54 (No. 2, 1995).

Muendel, John. "Medieval Urban Renewal: The Communal Mills of the City of Florence, 1351-1382," Journal of Urban History, 17 (August, 1991), 363-389.

Pollack, Martha. Turin, 1564-1680: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital (1992).

Scully, Vincent. "Italian Urbanism: The Town and the Garden," Chap. 8 of his Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade (1991).

Van der Wee, Herman ed. The Rise and Decline of Urban Industries in Italy and the Low Countries (1988).


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