Household And Lineage In Renaissance Florence

Author : Francis William Kent
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400869756

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Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence by Francis William Kent Pdf

Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic family? Considering three celebrated and representative Florentine ottimati lineages, the author reconstructs the histories and activities of scores of their households for the period circa 1420-1550. The author describes the nuclear and extended households and the acknowledgement of kinship among the men and separate households of each patrilineage. His analysis indicates that the nuclear family and the clan cannot justifiably be regarded as opposing forms of family organization, each representative of a distinct historical era and social ambience. Professor Kent's study places Renaissance individualism in a wider, more corporate social context than that in which it has been traditionally viewed by historians. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1414740557

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Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478607687

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The Family in Renaissance Florence by Leon Battista Alberti Pdf

A classic of Italian literature! The chief merit of this work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature, and science. It displays a variety of high styleshigh rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of characterin the typical Renaissance framework of the dialogue. The treatise, in its entirety, shows a Florentine paterfamilias and two uncles instructing some submissive nephews in the ethics of private life. Money and reputation are its primary themes. Book III, the most dramatic, far-ranging, and down-to-earth of the four books, does not present a single bourgeois outlook but, as a dialogue, expresses conflicting points of view, enabling students to relive social and moral conflicts that troubled early capitalist society.

Author : William J. Connell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520232542

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Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence by William J. Connell Pdf

Essays illustrate the ways Renaissance Florentines expressed or shaped their identities as they interacted with their society.

Author : Ann Crabb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 047210912X

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The Strozzi of Florence by Ann Crabb Pdf

Enter the turbulent world of a Florentine family through personal correspondence

Author : Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226439266

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Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber Pdf

English translations of the author's most important articles.

Author : Vincenzo Sorrentino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000569056

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A Patron Family Between Renaissance Florence, Rome, and Naples by Vincenzo Sorrentino Pdf

This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the family between Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as shedding light on the intellectual and social exchanges between different regions of Italy and on the creation of foreign nations within the main Italian cities. These social and cultural dimensions are further explored through the study of the obsessive persistence of the family’s relationship with Michelangelo Buonarroti, exhibited both publicly, in the Florentine and Neapolitan family chapels, and privately in their homes. The main achievement of this study is to move the focus from the ruling power, the Medici family and the immediate members of their court, to a Florentine middle-class family and its social mobility: this shift from the conventional narrative to a distributed microhistory is fundamental to better assess the use of images and artworks in early modern Florence and abroad. The aesthetic and stylistic choices in the use of art and art display made by the Del Riccio reveal a deep awareness of the substantial differences in taste and meaning between different cities of the Italian peninsula. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, and Renaissance studies.

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Columbia : University of South Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4251486

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The Family in Renaissance Florence by Leon Battista Alberti Pdf

"I libri della famiglia has long been viewed by Italians as a classic of Italian literature. It displays a variety of styles--high rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of character--in the typical Renaissance framework of the dialogue. The chief merit of the work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature, and science. This translation is based upon the critical edition by Cecil Grayson, Serena Professor of Italian Studies, Oxford."--Jacket.

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X004254990

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The Family in Renaissance Florence by Leon Battista Alberti Pdf

The chief merit of this translation lies in its scope: It directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature, & science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271044187

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The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family by Anonim Pdf

The Spinelli Archive, acquired by the Beinecke Library of Yale University in 1988, constitutes one of the most important collections of original documents about a Renaissance family anywhere outside Italy. Philip Jacks and William Caferro draw upon these papers to tell the story of the Spinelli family's ascent to economic and social prominence during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Letters and financial ledgers, many of them brought to light for the first time, provide an intimate portrait of daily life in Florence, from household affairs to the family's dealings in papal finance and cloth manufacture.

Author : Philip Gavitt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Abandoned children
ISBN : 0472101838

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Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence by Philip Gavitt Pdf

A study in the ideology of wealth and poverty

Author : E. A. Hammel
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483289359

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Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence by E. A. Hammel Pdf

Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence investigates the meaning of fraternity in terms of the ritual relations created in religious brotherhoods or confraternities during that period. The book focuses on the sociability of the confraternity as revealed in the patterns of membership and in forms of ceremony. Florence's confraternities serve as a vehicle for examining the relationship between ritual behavior and social organization. The text discusses the ways in which Florentines use forms of ritual to define, protect, and alter their relations with one another. The book reviews the social relations in Renaissance Florence through the structure of social relations, the politics of amity or enmity, and social relations in relation to economic exchange. Social organization and ritual actions include confraternal organization, membership, symbolic fraternity, and the rites of community. The book explores the company of San Paolo in the fifteenth century where the confraternity offers an introduction to the nature of citywide community, its republican institutions, and its civic values. The book also examines traditional confraternities in crisis, the nature of the disruptions that leads to the emergence of new confraternal organizations and values. In the sixteenth-century, confraternities reveal major departures in ideology, ritual, and social organization. They have also introduced the principles of hierarchy into confraternal membership, as well as a new ethic of obedience. The book will prove delightful reading for sociologists, historians studying Florentine society, and researchers interested in the history of religious brotherhood and confraternities.

Author : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400878628

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Private Wealth in Renaissance Florence by Richard A. Goldthwaite Pdf

The histories of six generations of the Strozzi, Gondi, Guicciardini, and Capponi families are traced from the fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries by focusing on the family household as defined by the economic bonds reflected in account books. These four families were among the best known of the city's patriciate and were influential in affairs of the city. Their histories serve as case studies in seeking to determine the nature of the patrician family as a specific kind of social institution and to assess its importance in Florentine history. A concluding chapter attempts to relate the changing composition of the family to the general development of Renaissance civilization. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Maria DePrano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108416054

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Art Patronage, Family, and Gender in Renaissance Florence by Maria DePrano Pdf

This book examines a Renaissance Florentine family's art patronage, even for women, inspired by literature, music, love, loss, and religion.

Author : Thomas Kuehn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226457659

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Law, Family, and Women by Thomas Kuehn Pdf

Focusing on Florence, Thomas Kuehn demonstrates the formative influence of law on Italian society during the Renaissance, especially in the spheres of family and women. Kuehn's use of legal sources along with letters, diaries, and contemporary accounts allows him to present a compelling image of the social processes that affected the shape and function of the law. The numerous law courts of Italian city-states constantly devised and revised statutes. Kuehn traces the permutations of these laws, then examines their use by Florentines to arbitrate conflict and regulate social behavior regarding such issues as kinship, marriage, business, inheritance, illlegitimacy, and gender. Ranging from one man's embittered denunciation of his father to another's reaction to his kinsmen's rejection of him as illegitimate, Law, Family, and Women provides fascinating evidence of the tensions riddling family life in Renaissance Florence. Kuehn shows how these same tensions, often articulated in and through the law, affected women. He examines the role of the mundualdus—a male legal guardian for women—in Florence, the control of fathers over their married daughters, and issues of inheritance by and through women. An ambitious attempt to reformulate the agenda of Renaissance social history, Kuehn's work will be of value to both legal anthropologists and social historians. Thomas Kuehn is professor of history at Clemson University.