英语听力:自然百科 意大利风情:The Art of the Feast—22(在线收听

A: I feel like I'm taking a reluctant 8-year-old on a tour around architecture delights of Ferrara. And I have to find something better to...Today Ferrara is a bustling university town, full of students and bicycles. The university was established by Alberto V D'Este in 1391. D'Este invited artists, architects and scholars from all over Europe. Jewish bankers persecuted elsewhere were welcomed here. In fact, the doors were flung open to all who could contribute to making Ferrara powerful and successful. A: If you came from anywhere elsewhere in Italy and you arrived here, you've been like stumbling out of the dark ages into this new Renaissance idea of what is a city. You know, these wide streets. This was really the first in* expression of a very particular Renaissance idea, which was s planned town, you know, the town-planning. The medieval town just gross, like an organism, you know this l*, where poor lives next to rich. Everything's kind of chaos. Here, in Ferrara, for the first time D'Este said, No, we're not gonna have that kind of city any more. We're gonna have planned city, wide streets, but only for the rich. It's just laid the palaces in all directions, and essentially of all, this dumping great expression of D'Este power, the p* of mighty.

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