Description

Cattaneo Editore [Published date: 1994]. Hard cover, 208 pp. Bi-lingual text in English and Italian. Very good in very good dust jacket. Blue textured paper over boards with white lettering on front and spine. Light scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean unmarked. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks and light creasing along the edges. Light scuffing to jacket as well. Now in a (removable) archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Beautiful full color photography by Mauro Lanfranchi. Contents include (all text in both English and Italian): Introductions by Editors and Angelo Borhi; CH. 1: Between Milan and the Alps: The Milanese trade routes ; The Vally - the city's workshop; The artistic charm of Lecco's landscape; The mountain's traditional resources; the Valassina's iron and cheese; The lake road to the Alpine passes; Strategies of the railway junction; CH 2: From Ancient Village to Modern City: The original lake landing place; The market tradition; The Piazza and the Visconti-Tower; The walls and the fortified bridge over the Adda; The old streets of the village; The city in the nineteenth century; Social civilisation of the the neo-classical period; Expansion towards Bergamo and Milan; Along the lakes rivera; CH3: The Valley of Metals: The Productive Valley; Traditional art of metal-working; The factories and palaces of Astello; Convents and spinning mills; The road to Malavedo rolling mill; On Monte San Martino's slopes; The upper Gerenzone Valley; Ch. 4: Manzoni's Villages; Ch: 5 From the Resegone to the Grigne; Bibliographical Note. Also includes several "monographic texts" on: the ancient mines of Valsassina; The Adda and Monte Barro Parks; Theh "Medechino", count of Lecco; Religious art; Lecco's Musical heritage; Fishermen, boatmen and the Discovery of the Lake's waters, Tonio's Cuisine: Polenta and Fish; and the Erna and the Resinelli.