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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... hand - made treasures , each unique , slowly gave way to mass production , but not without a fight . The rich continued to buy well- printed volumes where artists had custom - painted coats of arms and ornaments in blank spaces left for ...
... hands mostly low . The lively movement was in the legs , where complicated steps , kicks , hops , and stamps showed style ... hand , waist , or shoulder ; in facing rows or circles , they " reverenced " or honored one another and moved ...
... hand . He was asked if he had ever seen Ascanio cheat : Your Lordship , yes , I have seen him cheat . For once he was playing with me , and I had a 49. Ascanio showed me a 51. He had a card , slipped under another , so you could not see ...
Inhoudsopgave
From Birth Through Adolescence | 177 |
From Marriage Through Death | 199 |
Houses Food and Clothing | 215 |
Copyright | |
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Daily Life in Renaissance Italy Elizabeth Storr Cohen,Thomas Vance Cohen Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2001 |