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Title: Where are the palaces?
Review: Don't buy this book thinking that you will see photographs of the palaces of Naples and rooms in the palaces, because you won't. You will see a closeup of a fresco, and another closeup of a fresco, and here's an arch, and here's that same arch from another angle, and here is the marble floor, and here is a old engraving of the palace, and here is a view from the window...Where are the photographs of the rooms? Isn't this an architectural book? Apparently they went into the palaces since they set up the cameras and photographed plenty of pretty details, but they did not give the reader any idea of the structure itself. There is not even more than one photograph of the exterior of each of these palaces. This book is the equal to the book on the palaces of Sicily that I bought previously which did almost the same thing, so I have been burned twice~~you have been warned!
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