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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... rich sources for later research . They expressed themselves profusely , in letters , diaries , memoirs , commentaries , poems , ambassadorial reports , trial depositions , and deathbed testaments . They also produced a rich imaginative ...
... RICH PEASANT By the age of sixty - two , Giacobo di Giuliano , alias Caponero ( Black Head ) , of Rocca Sinibalda had in 1556 probably gone gray or bald , but the old nickname stuck . He and Tomassa , his wife , had just married off a ...
... rich occupied long chains of chambers , built tall and broad . Walls , especially in cities , were made of brick or stone , often faced with plaster . Such construction discouraged fire , even in densely settled neighborhoods ...
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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 |