The Society Of Renaissance Florence

Author : Renaissance Society of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802080790
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Society of Renaissance Florence written by Renaissance Society of America and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, The Society of Renaissance Florence is an invaluable collection of 132 original Florentine documents dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Author : William J. Connell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520232549
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence written by William J. Connell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays illustrate the ways Renaissance Florentines expressed or shaped their identities as they interacted with their society.

Author : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421400596
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economy of Renaissance Florence written by Richard A. Goldthwaite and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2010 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, the Renaissance Society of America2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceHonorable Mention, Economics, 2009 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of Florence’s commercial, banking, and artisan sectors. Florence was one of the most industrialized cities in medieval Europe, thanks to its thriving textile industries. The importation of raw materials and the exportation of finished cloth necessitated the creation of commercial and banking practices that extended far beyond Florence’s boundaries. Part I situates Florence within this wider international context and describes the commercial and banking networks through which the city's merchant-bankers operated. Part II focuses on the urban economy of Florence itself, including various industries, merchants, artisans, and investors. It also evaluates the role of government in the economy, the relationship of the urban economy to the region, and the distribution of wealth throughout the society. While political, social, and cultural histories of Florence abound, none focuses solely on the economic history of the city. The Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a comprehensive overview of its economic development from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance to 1600.

Author : Gene Brucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Florence written by Gene Brucker and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger J. Crum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521846935
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Florence written by Roger J. Crum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social history of Florence from the fourteenth through to sixteenth centuries.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780772720382
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florence and Beyond written by John M. Najemy and published by Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume celebrates John M. Najemy and his contributions to the study of Florentine and Italian Renaissance history. Over the last three decades, his books and articles on Florentine politics and political thought have substantially revised the narratives and contours of these fields. They have also provided a framework into which he has woven innovative new threads that have emerged in Renaissance social and cultural history. Presented by his many students and friends, the essays aim to highlight his varied interests and to suggest where they may point for future studies of Florence and, indeed, beyond. -- Amazon.com.

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271048147
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity. Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.

Author : Carole Collier Frick
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882647
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dressing Renaissance Florence written by Carole Collier Frick and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion industry, focusing on Florence, a city founded on cloth, a city of wool manufacturers, finishers, and merchants, of silk dyers, brocade weavers, pearl dealers, and goldsmiths. From the artisans who designed and assembled the outfits to the families who amassed fabulous wardrobes, Frick's wide-ranging and innovative interdisciplinary history explores the social and political implications of clothing in Renaissance Italy's most style-conscious city. Frick begins with a detailed account of the industry itself -- its organization within the guild structure of the city, the specialized work done by male and female workers of differing social status, the materials used and their sources, and the garments and accessories produced. She then shows how the driving force behind the growth of the industry was the elite families of Florence, who, in order to maintain their social standing and family honor, made continuous purchases of clothing -- whether for everyday use or special occasions -- for their families and households. And she concludes with an analysis of the clothes themselves: what pieces made up an outfit; how outfits differed for men, women, and children; and what colors, fabrics, and design elements were popular. Further, and perhaps more basically, she asks how we know what we know about Renaissance fashion and looks to both Florence's sumptuary laws, which defined what could be worn on the streets, and the depiction of contemporary clothing in Florentine art for the answer. For Florence's elite, appearance and display were intimately bound up with self-identity. Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy.

Author : Richard C. Trexler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801499791
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Life in Renaissance Florence written by Richard C. Trexler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public life - Humanism - Civic humanism - Friendship - Ritual - Alberti - Women in Florence - Family - Everyday life in Florence.

Author : Charles Calvert Bayley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Society in Renaissance Florence written by Charles Calvert Bayley and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: