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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... served in the court of the ruling Gonzaga family . Educated in both hu- manist letters and the social and military skills of the family calling , he served princes in Milan , Mantua , and Urbino as a soldier and , especially , a ...
... served as potent mark- ers of status when transporting the trousseau at a patrician wedding or when given as a gift to a foreign potentate . In the later Renaissance , the forms of the chest elaborated ; some , acquiring legs , doors ...
... served the lower classes especially , and more men than women . Simple wine shops and slightly grander inns with beds and stables were everywhere , in towns and villages and along the road . At some , strangers mingled , while others served ...
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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 |