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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... Spaniards or Greeks , and their subcultures of entertainers , beggars , and thieves . Three categories of outsiders - soldiers , Jews , and prostitutes - merit further comment . Soldiers were numerous in Italy , and highly mobile ...
... Spaniards convinced the chief constable to let them run an illegal gam- bling house at the Campo de ' Fiori market in hopes , they said , of picking up military secrets from Spanish soldiers . After a few months , the au- thorities ...
Inhoudsopgave
From Birth Through Adolescence | 177 |
From Marriage Through Death | 199 |
Houses Food and Clothing | 215 |
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