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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... word processors . Most modern print descends from it . The Aldine letters were round and a little slanted , on what scholars then believed , erroneously , to be an ancient Roman model , and the page , with its ample white space between ...
... words for implements , articles of clothing , foods , and feudal tenures unknown to Cicero or Virgil . Meanwhile , spoken Italian , in educated mouths , was full of technical expressions from the Latin ( et cetera , etc. ) , just as ...
... words themselves , her hungry ears needed help . Another lover , a teenaged boy who in 1602 had seduced the girl next door , used both written words and drawings to communicate his heart's desire . His mother , having discovered the ...
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 |