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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... ITALY " Italy , " like " Renaissance , " is largely a modern term , for the Geography modern Italian state is only a mid - nineteenth - century cre- ation . Renaissance Italians inhabited a political hodgepodge united by historical ...
... Italy was densely settled . Yet its population , though always high by European standards , fluctuated in the course of the Renaissance . The first great wave of bubonic plague , the famous Black Death of 1347 , was for Italy , as for ...
... Italy . Though legally subordinate to the emperor , these func- tionally independent lords might rule a clutch of ... Italy , down to the heel and toe of the boot , and Sicily belonged to Italy's only kingdom , Naples . Between 1400 and ...
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From Birth Through Adolescence | 177 |
From Marriage Through Death | 199 |
Houses Food and Clothing | 215 |
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Daily Life in Renaissance Italy Elizabeth Storr Cohen,Thomas Vance Cohen Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2001 |