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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... Rome and Avignon . In the resultant power vacuum , the middling states of Italy made shifting coalitions free of external interference . After 1440 , with the pope back in command at Rome , a fairly stable system of five major states ...
... Rome was much more dangerous than the cities of the United States today . Rome , in the late sixteenth century , with a population one- hundredth New York's now , had ten serious woundings a day and about thirty - five murders a year ...
... Rome : Laterza . Chambers , David , and Trevor Dean . 1997. Clean Hands and Rough Justice : An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy . Ann Arbor : University of Mich- igan Press . Cherubini , Giovanni . 1984. L'Italia rurale del ...
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From Birth Through Adolescence | 177 |
From Marriage Through Death | 199 |
Houses Food and Clothing | 215 |
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