Leggere l'Alhambra

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A visual guide to Granada's Alhambra through its inscriptions and architecture. The book is the fruit of research carried out by José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, lecturer in History of Art at the University of Granada. It is an approach aimed at giving a better understanding of the uses and functions, forms and meanings of the different areas of the palace, all resulting from a refined and elevated concept of poetry as an instrument and means of perpetuation of the political and spiritual power of the Nasrid monarchs. The 2nd edition of Reading the Alhambra contains 900 photos, drawings and three-dimensional recreations, along with 16 maps, and is issued with the DVD Sentir la Alhambra, in 6 languages, containing recitals in Arabic of poems, verses from the Koran, scrolling calligraphic inscriptions and an original sound track.