S. NICCOLO A PRATO. de Bardazzi, Silvestro; and Castellani, Eugenio - (1984).

Prato, Italy: Edizioni del Palazzo, (1984)., (1984).. Very good. - Quarto, 13 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide. Olive green cloth titled in white on the front cover and spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The book is housed in its original slipcase with brown paper covered boards with olive cloth edges and an illustration of the church's ceiling fresco pictured on the front & back. There is a tiny tear to the bottom edge of the dust jacket's front panel and there is a tiny price label on its spine. The slipcase is slightly rubbed with some scratches to the case's front edge. 482 & [1] pages, profusely illustrated in black & white and color, including many full-page. Near fine in a very good slipcase.

First edition. The text is in Italian.

One of Tuscany's most beautiful monastic complexes, the Monastery and Church of San Niccolo was built between 1323 and 1328 as a monastery for Dominican nuns. The structure was expanded throughout the centuries until it became a conservatory at the end of the 18th century. The monastery served as a Catholic school for girls with a curriculum covering early childhood education through secondary school.