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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... walls were fewer and prop- erty rights less absolute . In these hills , one saw a good deal of geome- try - not the precise mathematics of the surveyor but the pragmatic , responsive geometry of agriculture . Terrace walls conformed to ...
... walls than the rest of town , a tougher nut to crack . Customarily it sat on the edge , as an anchor to the circuit of walls . On its townward side lay a zone empty of houses , a free field of fire , so that , were the town to fall to ...
... wall or on a letter passed surreptitiously through one . Walls , sometimes as much as several feet thick , could be cut for window seats and for niches and shelves . The affluent embellished their internal walls in many colorful ways ...
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 |