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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... called cantastorie ( story singers ) or cantimbanchi ( singers on the stage ) made their living by entertaining in the streets . Sometimes they regaled the crowd with old favorites , but their stock in trade in- cluded news : as today ...
... called Bandecca in memory of his deceased spouse , a naming custom observed by others as well . The next born , his first legitimate son , Dati named after his own father . Alas , in the boy's second year , Our Lord God pleased to take ...
... called this shameful ailment " syphilis . " Rather , they called it " the French disease . " Much of Europe followed suit ; Shakespeare's England called it " the French pox . " The French , who abhorred this credit , rather called it ...
Inhoudsopgave
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 |