[PDF] Daily Life In Florence eBook

Author : J. Lucas-Dubreton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1000021831

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Originally published in 1960, paints a picture of what life was like in Renaissance Florence. It examines private and public life of Florentine citizens, governance and defence; the life of women; domestic arrangements; ritual and ceremony, siege and plague.

Author : Richard C. Trexler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801499791

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Public life - Humanism - Civic humanism - Friendship - Ritual - Alberti - Women in Florence - Family - Everyday life in Florence.

Author : Florence Dupont
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780631193951

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This book, now available in paperback, concerns the everyday private and public lives of the citizens of ancient Rome. Drawing on a broad selection of contemporary sources, the author examines the institutions, actions and rituals of day to day life.

Author : Jean 1883- Lucas-Dubreton
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
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ISBN : 9781014712806

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William J. Connell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520232549

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Essays illustrate the ways Renaissance Florentines expressed or shaped their identities as they interacted with their society.

Author : Carole Collier Frick
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2005-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801882647

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As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion industry, focusing on Florence, a city founded on cloth, a city of wool manufacturers, finishers, and merchants, of silk dyers, brocade weavers, pearl dealers, and goldsmiths. From the artisans who designed and assembled the outfits to the families who amassed fabulous wardrobes, Frick's wide-ranging and innovative interdisciplinary history explores the social and political implications of clothing in Renaissance Italy's most style-conscious city. Frick begins with a detailed account of the industry itself -- its organization within the guild structure of the city, the specialized work done by male and female workers of differing social status, the materials used and their sources, and the garments and accessories produced. She then shows how the driving force behind the growth of the industry was the elite families of Florence, who, in order to maintain their social standing and family honor, made continuous purchases of clothing -- whether for everyday use or special occasions -- for their families and households. And she concludes with an analysis of the clothes themselves: what pieces made up an outfit; how outfits differed for men, women, and children; and what colors, fabrics, and design elements were popular. Further, and perhaps more basically, she asks how we know what we know about Renaissance fashion and looks to both Florence's sumptuary laws, which defined what could be worn on the streets, and the depiction of contemporary clothing in Florentine art for the answer. For Florence's elite, appearance and display were intimately bound up with self-identity. Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy.