Daily Life in Renaissance ItalyGreenwood Press, 2001 - 316 pagina's
Recipes, profiles of actual individuals, and over 40 illustrations help bring the period to life. Learn what they ate, what their homes were like, how they spent their leisure time, what their work was like, and much more. Modern readers will be surprised to find fundamental similarities between our lives today and the lives of these people living over 500 years ago, as well as to discover that many of the perceptions they may have of this time period are inaccurate. |
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Elizabeth Storr Cohen, Thomas Vance Cohen. depart ? " Giovanni Della Casa in his book of manners , Galateo , grumbled in 1555 that a stuffy sycophancy was creeping into speech . Nevertheless , he grudgingly counseled his readers to ...
... Giovanni Della Casa's injunction that a gentleman should smell neither foul like a beggar nor sweet like a harlot was difficult to achieve . Nor did teeth cleaning rely on water . Della Casa implies that people customarily did this at ...
... Giovanni Della Casa , Galateo , trans . K. Eisenbichler and K. Bartlett ( Toronto : Cen- tre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies , 1986 ) ; Agnolo Firenzuola , On the Beauty of Women , trans . K. Eisenbichler and J. Murray ...
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From Birth Through Adolescence | 177 |
From Marriage Through Death | 199 |
Houses Food and Clothing | 215 |
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