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Bookclub: Ross King: Brunelleschi's Dome

Ross King: Brunelleschi's Dome

BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Ross King: Brunelleschi's Dome

James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Ross King about Brunelleschi's Dome.

A literary trip to Florence in the company of Ross King, discussing his book Brunelleschi's Dome.

Historian Ross King answers listener questions about his book Brunelleschi's Dome. An incredible story of one man's determination to build an apparently impossible structure, it's a tale of ingenuity, artistic rivalries, and single-minded obsession. Although building had started on  Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore in the late thirteenth century, it wasn't until 1418 that local goldsmith Filippo Brunelleschi came up with an audacious way of constructing the magnificent dome,  which still dominates the Florence skyline today. But as Brunelleschi's Dome reveals, the architect faced huge obstacles and opposition along the way. 

Our next Bookclub recordings: 

18/01/23: Cal Flyn will be talking about her book, Islands of Abandonment. 1300 at BBC Broadcasting House, London.

16/02/23: Nadifa Mohamed on The Fortune Men. 1830 at BBC Broadcasting House, London

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