The World of Renaissance Italy
A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2017
840 pages
978-1-4408-2960-4 (ISBN)
Description
Students of the Italian Renaissance who wish to go beyond the standard names and subjects will find in this text abundant information on the lives, customs, beliefs, and practices of those who lived during this exciting time period.
The World of Renaissance Italy: A Daily Life Encyclopedia engages all of the Italian peninsula from the Black Death (1347-1352) to 1600. Unlike other encyclopedic works about the Renaissance era, this book deals exclusively with Italy, revealing the ways common Italian people lived and experienced the events and technological developments that marked the Renaissance era. The coverage specifically spotlights marginal or traditionally marginalized groups, including women, homosexuals, Jews, the elderly, and foreign communities in Italian cities.
The entries in this two-volume set are organized into 10 sections of 25 alphabetically listed entries each. Among the broad sections are art, fashion, family and gender, food and drink, housing and community, politics, recreation and social customs, and war. The "See Also" sources for each article are listed by section for easy reference, a feature that students and researchers will greatly appreciate. The extensive collection of contemporary documents include selections from a diary, letters, a travel journal, a merchant's inventory, Inquisition testimony, a metallurgical handbook, and text by an artist that describes what the author feels constitutes great work. Each of the primary source documents accompanies a specific article and provides an added dimension and degree of insight to the material.
The World of Renaissance Italy: A Daily Life Encyclopedia engages all of the Italian peninsula from the Black Death (1347-1352) to 1600. Unlike other encyclopedic works about the Renaissance era, this book deals exclusively with Italy, revealing the ways common Italian people lived and experienced the events and technological developments that marked the Renaissance era. The coverage specifically spotlights marginal or traditionally marginalized groups, including women, homosexuals, Jews, the elderly, and foreign communities in Italian cities.
The entries in this two-volume set are organized into 10 sections of 25 alphabetically listed entries each. Among the broad sections are art, fashion, family and gender, food and drink, housing and community, politics, recreation and social customs, and war. The "See Also" sources for each article are listed by section for easy reference, a feature that students and researchers will greatly appreciate. The extensive collection of contemporary documents include selections from a diary, letters, a travel journal, a merchant's inventory, Inquisition testimony, a metallurgical handbook, and text by an artist that describes what the author feels constitutes great work. Each of the primary source documents accompanies a specific article and provides an added dimension and degree of insight to the material.
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Joseph P. Byrne, PhD, is professor of honors humanities at Belmont University in Nashville, TN.
Content
Volume 1
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
Acknowledgments
Arts,
Introduction,
Antiquity, Cult of,
Art, Courtly,
Art, Sacred,
Art Patronage,
Ceramics, Decorative,
Daily Life in Art,
Dance, Courtly,
Dante in Popular Culture,
Goldsmithing and Fine Metalwork,
Music at Church,
Music at Court,
Musical Instruments,
Non-Europeans in Art,
Novella,
Painters and Their Workshops,
Painting: Media and Techniques,
Perspective in the Visual Arts,
Pietre Dure and Intarsia,
Portraits,
Prints: Woodcuts, Engravings, and Etchings,
Sculpture,
Theater for the Elite,
Women and the Arts,
Women Poets and Their Poetry,
Economics and Work,
Introduction,
Accounting,
Apothecaries,
Apprentices,
Banks and Banking,
Book Printing and Sales,
Cloth Trade,
Clothmaking,
Coins, Coinage, and Money,
Construction, Building,
Credit and Loans,
Grain Trade,
Guilds,
Imported Goods, Sources of,
Manufacturing,
Mezzadria,
Notaries,
Putting-Out System,
Retail Selling,
Sheep and Wool Economy in the South,
Slaves and Slavery,
Spice Trade,
Taxes and Public Finance,
Trade, Seaborne,
Trade Routes, Overland,
Wages and Prices,
Women in the Labor Force,
Family and Gender,
Introduction,
Birth and Midwives,
Childhood,
Death, Funerals, and Burial,
Divorce, Separation, and Annulment,
Dowries,
Education of Children,
Espousal and Wedding,
Families, Laboring Class,
Families, Noble and Patrician,
Fertility, Conception, and Contraception,
Fostering, Step Children, and Adoption,
Health and Illness,
Heraldry,
Homosexuality and Sodomy,
Infancy, Nursing, and Wet Nursing,
Inheritance,
Last Wills and Testaments,
Names, Personal and Family,
Old Age,
Pregnancy,
Servants, Household,
Siblings,
Virtù and Honor,
Widows,
Wives and Husbands,
Fashion and Appearance,
Introduction,
Art, Fashion in,
Attire, Children,
Attire, Female,
Attire, Male,
Bathing and Personal Hygiene,
Cosmetics,
Court, Fashion at,
Dyes and Dyestuffs,
Fabrics, Domestic,
Fabrics, Imported,
Facial Hair,
Gems and Jewelry,
Hair and Hairstyles,
Headgear,
Laundry,
Literature on Dress,
Livery,
Mouth and Teeth,
Religious Habits and Vestments,
Scents and Perfumes,
Shoes and Footwear,
Social Status and Clothing,
Sumptuary Laws,
Tailors and Seamstresses,
Underclothing,
Food and Drink,
Introduction,
Bread,
Civic Fountains and Potable Water,
Conduct at Table,
Diet and Social Status,
Drugs,
Eating Out,
Feasting and Fasting,
Food Preservation,
Foodsellers and Markets,
Foreign Foods,
Fruits and Vegetables,
Galenic Health Regimens,
Grains and the Wheat Market,
Hunger and Famine,
Literature of Food and Cooking,
Meat, Fowl, Fish, Eggs, and Dairy,
Nutrition: A Modern Assessment,
Salt and Pepper, Herbs and Spices,
Sugar and Confected Sweets,
Tools for Cooking and Eating,
Wines,
Volume 2
Contents,
Housing and Community,
Introduction,
Barbers and Surgeons,
City Streets and Piazze,
Death in the Community,
Foreign Communities,
Furnishing the House,
Gardens,
Health Commissions and Boards,
Hospitals and Orphanages,
Infant Mortality and Foundling Homes,
Jewish Communities,
Neighborhood and Parish,
Palazzi,
Patronage,
Physicians,
Plague,
Poor, Aid to,
Poverty and the Poor,
Prisons,
Quacks, Charlatans, and Medical Empirics,
Sewage, Sewerage, and Public Sanitation,
Transportation, Local,
Villages and Village Life,
Villas,
Violence within the Household and Community,
Water,
Politics and Warfare,
Introduction,
Alliances and Treaties,
Ambassadors and Diplomacy,
Armies,
Arms and Armor,
Art, Civic,
Citizenship,
City Halls,
Civic Magistracies and Offices,
Contado and Subject Towns,
Crime and Punishments,
Exile and Exiles,
Firearms and Artillery,
Fortresses and Fortifications,
Guelfs and Ghibellines and Other
Political Factions,
Mercenaries,
Monarchies, Duchies, and Marquisates,
Navies and Naval Warfare,
Rebellions and Revolts,
Republics,
Soldiers,
Urban Councils and Assemblies,
Urban Public Safety,
War and Civilians,
War in Italy, 1494-1559,
War in Italy to 1494,
Recreation and Social Customs,
Introduction,
Calendars: Sacred and Profane,
Carnival,
Children's Toys and Games,
Church Festivals and Processions,
Civic Festivals,
Courtesans, Prostitutes, and the Sex Trade,
Drunkenness,
Executions,
Gambling,
Games and Pastimes,
Madness,
Music and Dance in Popular Culture,
News,
Noble Pursuits,
Pets,
Pornography and Erotica,
Reading,
Songs and Singing, Popular,
Sports, Contests, and Competitions,
Street Entertainment,
Taverns and Inns,
Theater, Popular,
Theater, Religious,
Weddings,
Women, Letters, and Letter Writing,
Religion and Beliefs,
Introduction,
Bible,
Chapels,
Christian Art in the Home,
Churches,
Clergy, Catholic,
Confraternities,
Council of Trent and Catholic Reform,
Crucifix,
Demons, the Devil, and Exorcisms,
Friars,
Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,
Inquisitions,
Jews and Judaism,
Magic,
Mary, Cult of,
Memorials Ex Voto,
Monks and Monasteries,
Nuns and Nunneries,
Pilgrims and Shrines,
Preachers and Preaching,
Prophecy and Apocalypticism,
Protestantism,
Sacramentals,
Sacraments, Catholic,
Saints and Their Cults,
Witches and Sorcerers,
Women Mystics,
Science and Technology,
Introduction,
Academies,
Agriculture and Agronomy,
Alchemy,
Anatomy and Dissection,
Astrology,
Astronomy before Copernicus,
Botany and Botanical Illustration,
Collecting and Collections,
Disease and Humoral Medicine,
Glassmaking,
Libraries,
Machines and Engines,
Maps and Mapmaking,
Medical Education,
Metallurgy,
Navigational Tools,
Pharmacopeias and Materia Medica,
Plague Treatises and Consilia,
Printing,
Secrets, Books of,
Ships and Shipbuilding,
Surgery,
Technical Illustration,
Timekeeping,
Tools,
Universities,
Primary Documents
Arts,
The Artist as a Young Man: Cennino Cennini. "Vocational Advice to a Budding Painter." Craftsman's Handbook [Il Libro dell'arte] (c. 1410),
The Renaissance Stage: Sebastiano Serlio. "A Venetian Architect on Designing Stage Scenery." Second Book of Architecture (1545),
Economics and Work,
Tuscan Landlords and Peasants: A Mezzadria Contract from Lucca (c. 1350) and a Landowner's Memorandum (c. 1410),
The Merchant's Inventory: Luca Pacioli. "What an Inventory Is and How to Make It." The Rules of Double-Entry Bookkeeping: Particularis de computis et scripturis (1494),
Family and Gender,
Early Fifteenth-Century Households, Housewives, and Servants: Francesco Barbaro. "On Running the Venetian Patrician Household." On Wifely Duties (1416),
A Future Pope's Letter to His Father on His Own Paternity: Letter of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini to Silvio Piccolomini (1443),
Fashion and Appearance,
Venetian Sumptuary Laws (1304-1512),
Of Gowns, Housegowns, and Dirty Laundry: Letters of Margherita Datini to Her Husband, Francesco Datini (1397-1398),
Food and Drink,
Wine and Patronage: Giovanni Boccaccio. "Cisti's Wine." Decameron (1353),
A Fifteenth-Century Physician's Dietary and Medical Regimen: Ugo Benzi. Physician's Consilium #91 (1482),
Housing and Community,
Florence's Old Market in the Later Fourteenth Century: Antonio Pucci. "The Character of the Mercato Vecchio in Florence" (c. 1380s),
Awaiting the Executioner: Florentine Writer Luca della Robbia on the Death Vigil and Death of His Friend Pietro Pagolo Boscoli (1513),
Politics and Warfare,
Crime and Punishment in Florence: Luca Landucci's Diary (1465-1497),
The Attempted Assassination of Florentine Leader Lorenzo de'Medici: Niccolò Machiavelli. "The Failed Conspiracy of 1478" (1526),
Recreation and Social Customs,
The Festival of St. John in Florence: Gregorio (Goro) Dati. History of Florence (c. 1410),
The Wedding of Lorenzo il Magnifico: Letter of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici to Filippo Strozzi the Elder (1469),
Religion and Beliefs,
A Fifteenth-Century Venetian Merchant's Understanding of the Mass: Zibaldone da Canal, a Venetian Merchant's Manual (1422),
Testimony before the Inquisition against a Witch: Costanza's "Diabolical Works" as Recounted before the Inquisition in Modena (1518),
Science and Technology,
A Metallurgist on Alchemy: Vannoccio Biringuccio. Pirotechnia (1540),
The Popes' Book Collection: Michel du Montaigne. Visit to the Papal Library. Travel Journal (1581),
Appendix: Popes and European Rulers (1350-1600),
General Bibliography,
Index,
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
Acknowledgments
Arts,
Introduction,
Antiquity, Cult of,
Art, Courtly,
Art, Sacred,
Art Patronage,
Ceramics, Decorative,
Daily Life in Art,
Dance, Courtly,
Dante in Popular Culture,
Goldsmithing and Fine Metalwork,
Music at Church,
Music at Court,
Musical Instruments,
Non-Europeans in Art,
Novella,
Painters and Their Workshops,
Painting: Media and Techniques,
Perspective in the Visual Arts,
Pietre Dure and Intarsia,
Portraits,
Prints: Woodcuts, Engravings, and Etchings,
Sculpture,
Theater for the Elite,
Women and the Arts,
Women Poets and Their Poetry,
Economics and Work,
Introduction,
Accounting,
Apothecaries,
Apprentices,
Banks and Banking,
Book Printing and Sales,
Cloth Trade,
Clothmaking,
Coins, Coinage, and Money,
Construction, Building,
Credit and Loans,
Grain Trade,
Guilds,
Imported Goods, Sources of,
Manufacturing,
Mezzadria,
Notaries,
Putting-Out System,
Retail Selling,
Sheep and Wool Economy in the South,
Slaves and Slavery,
Spice Trade,
Taxes and Public Finance,
Trade, Seaborne,
Trade Routes, Overland,
Wages and Prices,
Women in the Labor Force,
Family and Gender,
Introduction,
Birth and Midwives,
Childhood,
Death, Funerals, and Burial,
Divorce, Separation, and Annulment,
Dowries,
Education of Children,
Espousal and Wedding,
Families, Laboring Class,
Families, Noble and Patrician,
Fertility, Conception, and Contraception,
Fostering, Step Children, and Adoption,
Health and Illness,
Heraldry,
Homosexuality and Sodomy,
Infancy, Nursing, and Wet Nursing,
Inheritance,
Last Wills and Testaments,
Names, Personal and Family,
Old Age,
Pregnancy,
Servants, Household,
Siblings,
Virtù and Honor,
Widows,
Wives and Husbands,
Fashion and Appearance,
Introduction,
Art, Fashion in,
Attire, Children,
Attire, Female,
Attire, Male,
Bathing and Personal Hygiene,
Cosmetics,
Court, Fashion at,
Dyes and Dyestuffs,
Fabrics, Domestic,
Fabrics, Imported,
Facial Hair,
Gems and Jewelry,
Hair and Hairstyles,
Headgear,
Laundry,
Literature on Dress,
Livery,
Mouth and Teeth,
Religious Habits and Vestments,
Scents and Perfumes,
Shoes and Footwear,
Social Status and Clothing,
Sumptuary Laws,
Tailors and Seamstresses,
Underclothing,
Food and Drink,
Introduction,
Bread,
Civic Fountains and Potable Water,
Conduct at Table,
Diet and Social Status,
Drugs,
Eating Out,
Feasting and Fasting,
Food Preservation,
Foodsellers and Markets,
Foreign Foods,
Fruits and Vegetables,
Galenic Health Regimens,
Grains and the Wheat Market,
Hunger and Famine,
Literature of Food and Cooking,
Meat, Fowl, Fish, Eggs, and Dairy,
Nutrition: A Modern Assessment,
Salt and Pepper, Herbs and Spices,
Sugar and Confected Sweets,
Tools for Cooking and Eating,
Wines,
Volume 2
Contents,
Housing and Community,
Introduction,
Barbers and Surgeons,
City Streets and Piazze,
Death in the Community,
Foreign Communities,
Furnishing the House,
Gardens,
Health Commissions and Boards,
Hospitals and Orphanages,
Infant Mortality and Foundling Homes,
Jewish Communities,
Neighborhood and Parish,
Palazzi,
Patronage,
Physicians,
Plague,
Poor, Aid to,
Poverty and the Poor,
Prisons,
Quacks, Charlatans, and Medical Empirics,
Sewage, Sewerage, and Public Sanitation,
Transportation, Local,
Villages and Village Life,
Villas,
Violence within the Household and Community,
Water,
Politics and Warfare,
Introduction,
Alliances and Treaties,
Ambassadors and Diplomacy,
Armies,
Arms and Armor,
Art, Civic,
Citizenship,
City Halls,
Civic Magistracies and Offices,
Contado and Subject Towns,
Crime and Punishments,
Exile and Exiles,
Firearms and Artillery,
Fortresses and Fortifications,
Guelfs and Ghibellines and Other
Political Factions,
Mercenaries,
Monarchies, Duchies, and Marquisates,
Navies and Naval Warfare,
Rebellions and Revolts,
Republics,
Soldiers,
Urban Councils and Assemblies,
Urban Public Safety,
War and Civilians,
War in Italy, 1494-1559,
War in Italy to 1494,
Recreation and Social Customs,
Introduction,
Calendars: Sacred and Profane,
Carnival,
Children's Toys and Games,
Church Festivals and Processions,
Civic Festivals,
Courtesans, Prostitutes, and the Sex Trade,
Drunkenness,
Executions,
Gambling,
Games and Pastimes,
Madness,
Music and Dance in Popular Culture,
News,
Noble Pursuits,
Pets,
Pornography and Erotica,
Reading,
Songs and Singing, Popular,
Sports, Contests, and Competitions,
Street Entertainment,
Taverns and Inns,
Theater, Popular,
Theater, Religious,
Weddings,
Women, Letters, and Letter Writing,
Religion and Beliefs,
Introduction,
Bible,
Chapels,
Christian Art in the Home,
Churches,
Clergy, Catholic,
Confraternities,
Council of Trent and Catholic Reform,
Crucifix,
Demons, the Devil, and Exorcisms,
Friars,
Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory,
Inquisitions,
Jews and Judaism,
Magic,
Mary, Cult of,
Memorials Ex Voto,
Monks and Monasteries,
Nuns and Nunneries,
Pilgrims and Shrines,
Preachers and Preaching,
Prophecy and Apocalypticism,
Protestantism,
Sacramentals,
Sacraments, Catholic,
Saints and Their Cults,
Witches and Sorcerers,
Women Mystics,
Science and Technology,
Introduction,
Academies,
Agriculture and Agronomy,
Alchemy,
Anatomy and Dissection,
Astrology,
Astronomy before Copernicus,
Botany and Botanical Illustration,
Collecting and Collections,
Disease and Humoral Medicine,
Glassmaking,
Libraries,
Machines and Engines,
Maps and Mapmaking,
Medical Education,
Metallurgy,
Navigational Tools,
Pharmacopeias and Materia Medica,
Plague Treatises and Consilia,
Printing,
Secrets, Books of,
Ships and Shipbuilding,
Surgery,
Technical Illustration,
Timekeeping,
Tools,
Universities,
Primary Documents
Arts,
The Artist as a Young Man: Cennino Cennini. "Vocational Advice to a Budding Painter." Craftsman's Handbook [Il Libro dell'arte] (c. 1410),
The Renaissance Stage: Sebastiano Serlio. "A Venetian Architect on Designing Stage Scenery." Second Book of Architecture (1545),
Economics and Work,
Tuscan Landlords and Peasants: A Mezzadria Contract from Lucca (c. 1350) and a Landowner's Memorandum (c. 1410),
The Merchant's Inventory: Luca Pacioli. "What an Inventory Is and How to Make It." The Rules of Double-Entry Bookkeeping: Particularis de computis et scripturis (1494),
Family and Gender,
Early Fifteenth-Century Households, Housewives, and Servants: Francesco Barbaro. "On Running the Venetian Patrician Household." On Wifely Duties (1416),
A Future Pope's Letter to His Father on His Own Paternity: Letter of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini to Silvio Piccolomini (1443),
Fashion and Appearance,
Venetian Sumptuary Laws (1304-1512),
Of Gowns, Housegowns, and Dirty Laundry: Letters of Margherita Datini to Her Husband, Francesco Datini (1397-1398),
Food and Drink,
Wine and Patronage: Giovanni Boccaccio. "Cisti's Wine." Decameron (1353),
A Fifteenth-Century Physician's Dietary and Medical Regimen: Ugo Benzi. Physician's Consilium #91 (1482),
Housing and Community,
Florence's Old Market in the Later Fourteenth Century: Antonio Pucci. "The Character of the Mercato Vecchio in Florence" (c. 1380s),
Awaiting the Executioner: Florentine Writer Luca della Robbia on the Death Vigil and Death of His Friend Pietro Pagolo Boscoli (1513),
Politics and Warfare,
Crime and Punishment in Florence: Luca Landucci's Diary (1465-1497),
The Attempted Assassination of Florentine Leader Lorenzo de'Medici: Niccolò Machiavelli. "The Failed Conspiracy of 1478" (1526),
Recreation and Social Customs,
The Festival of St. John in Florence: Gregorio (Goro) Dati. History of Florence (c. 1410),
The Wedding of Lorenzo il Magnifico: Letter of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici to Filippo Strozzi the Elder (1469),
Religion and Beliefs,
A Fifteenth-Century Venetian Merchant's Understanding of the Mass: Zibaldone da Canal, a Venetian Merchant's Manual (1422),
Testimony before the Inquisition against a Witch: Costanza's "Diabolical Works" as Recounted before the Inquisition in Modena (1518),
Science and Technology,
A Metallurgist on Alchemy: Vannoccio Biringuccio. Pirotechnia (1540),
The Popes' Book Collection: Michel du Montaigne. Visit to the Papal Library. Travel Journal (1581),
Appendix: Popes and European Rulers (1350-1600),
General Bibliography,
Index,
