in the city of Bologna is matched by a new development of the arts, especially of architecture: so that the destruction of the Palazzo Bentivoglio [in C.E.1507] really seems to mark the death of the elegance and minute and hackneyed decorations of the fifteenth century and the beginning of a new rebirth by classical examples. (p. 116)" - Meaning and context.">
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The internal peace in the city of Bologna is matched by a new development of the arts, especially of architecture: so that the destruction of the Palazzo Bentivoglio [in C.E.1507] really seems to mark the death of the elegance and minute and hackneyed decorations of the fifteenth century and the beginning of a new rebirth by classical examples. (p. 116)

— Guido Zucchini (historian)

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About Guido Zucchini (historian)

Guido Zucchini (C.E.1882 – 1957), Italian engineer and art historian.