The Greatness of Cities
The Greatness of Cities
by Giovanni Botero
A Treatise Concerning The Causes of the Magnificency and Greatness of Cities
Divided into three books by Sig. Giovanni Botero in the Italian Tongue, now done into English by Robert Peterson 1606
Book One
1. What a city is, and what the greatness of a city is said to be
A city is said to be an assembly of people, a congregation drawn together to the end they may thereby the better live at their ease in wealth and plenty. ...