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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... Merchants and Businessmen The stratum of merchants and entrepreneurs spanned a wide range of stations in life . Fortunes were volatile in Renaissance Italy . One could get rich quickly , but could also fall fast . At the top of this ...
... merchants , see also Iris Origo , The Merchant of Prato ( Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1963 ) ; for a brief portrait of this merchant's wife , see Carole Levin , " Women in the Renais- sance , " in Becoming Visible , ed . Bridenthal and ...
... merchants to master communication and record keeping . They had to direct their far - flung partners and agents , and to receive back from them the ac- counts they needed to balance their double - entry ledgers . All news of crops ...
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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 |