Private Wealth In Renaissance Florence

Author : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : RICHARD A. GOLDTHWAITE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0691051666

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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 : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018253133

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Banks, Palaces, and Entrepreneurs in Renaissance Florence by Richard A. Goldthwaite Pdf

This book gathers together Goldthwaite's studies of various aspects of the world of the entrepreneur in 15th-century Florence. The subjects of these papers range from the formal education of businessmen in schools of commercial arithmetic to their operations as international bankers, and from the private householder that shaped some of their economic interests (including building a home) to the public urban scene in which they conducted business with one another. A general concern with the way social structures impinge on economic enterprise ties many of these studies together into a methodological as well as a thematic unity.

Author : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1069233429

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Private Wealth in Renaissance Florence ... Four Families by Richard A. Goldthwaite Pdf

Author : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781421400594

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The Economy of Renaissance Florence by Richard A. Goldthwaite Pdf

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 : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0520046951

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Renaissance Florence, Updated Edition by Gene Brucker Pdf

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the city's physical character, its economic and social structure and developments, its political and religious life, and its cultural achievement. For this edition, Mr. Brucker has added Notes on Florentine Scholarship and a Bibliographical Supplement.

Author : Francis William Kent
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Gene Brucker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520046955

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Renaissance Florence, Updated Edition by Gene Brucker Pdf

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the city's physical character, its economic and social structure and developments, its political and religious life, and its cultural achievement. For this edition, Mr. Brucker has added Notes on Florentine Scholarship and a Bibliographical Supplement.

Author : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009497145

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Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600 by Richard A. Goldthwaite Pdf

Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy represents a departure from previous studies, both in its focus on demand and in its emphasis on the history of the material culture of the West. By demonstrating that the roots of modern consumer society can be found in Renaissance Italy, Richard Goldthwaite offers a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on the history of modern consumerism--a movement which he regards as a positive force for the formation of new attitudes about things that is a defining characteristic of modern culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 027104814X

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Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence by Anonim Pdf

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 : J. Lucas-Dubreton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000021837

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Daily Life in Florence by J. Lucas-Dubreton Pdf

Originally published in 1960, paints a picture of what life was like in Renaissance Florence. It examines private and public life of Florentine citizens, governance and defence; the life of women; domestic arrangements; ritual and ceremony, siege and plague.

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Gene A. Brucker
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000259672

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Renaissance Florence by Gene A. Brucker Pdf

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the city's physical character, its economic and social structure and developments, its political and religious life, and its cultural achievement. For this edition, Mr. Brucker has added "Notes on Florentine Scholarship" and a "Bibliographical Supplement."

Author : Richard C. Trexler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002181702

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Public Life in Renaissance Florence by Richard C. Trexler Pdf

Author : Renaissance Society of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802080790

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The Society of Renaissance Florence by Renaissance Society of America Pdf

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.