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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... horse - load , marzipan , quince jam , lemons , and oranges . Princes regaled one another with trains of horses in cloth of gold and bejeweled tack , or giraffes or elephants at which their subjects gaped . Humanists exchanged rare man ...
... horse gear and weapons . Women had spindles , em- broidery frames , and sewing supplies . For recreation there might be mu- sical instruments and games ; some householders kept birds in cages . The literate acquired books , and rich ...
... horses for tram- pling loose the grain , have broken in to loose their beasts to feed . The gun persuades the intruders to surrender a knife ; this the boys will de- posit at the village court as surety that the threshers will show up ...
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 |