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Nicola Courtright presents a study of the Tower of the Winds, a three storey apartment built on the orders of Pope Gregory XIII to celebrate his great reform of the calendar. She examines the innovative architecture & decoration of the tower, & the religious, political & cultural purposes it served.Courtright, Nicola is the author of 'Papacy and the Art of Reform in Sixteenth-Century Rome Gregory Xiii's Tower of the Winds in the Vatican' with ISBN 9780521624374 and ISBN 0521624371.
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