Manfredo Tafuri
Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects
Trans. Daniel Sherer.
New Haven:
Yale University Press in association with Harvard Design School,
2006.
568 pp.; 166 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(0300111584)
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In 2006 Yale University Press published an English translation of Manfredo Tafuri’s last book—fourteen years after the Italian original and twelve years after the death of its author. Why? Admittedly Tafuri (Rome, 1935–Venice, 1994) was both famous and controversial in the Anglo-Saxon world. Famous because of the incredibly wide range of his knowledge and his refined scholarship, controversial because of his Marxist views and his preference for urban development over individual works of architecture. In...