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- English
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About this book
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.
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Index
Acciàiuoli, Agnolo, 28, 32
Alberti, Leone Battista, 36-8, 59, 91, 93
Albizzi family, 51-5, 58
Alchemy, 43
Alexander VI (pope), 164
Alum mining, 71
Ammanati, Manetto (painter), 204
Angelico, Fra, 211
Antonino (churchman), 49-50
Apothecaries, 31
Architecture, 90 fol., 219-20: see also entries under names of individual architects
Arezzo, 20, 34, 35, 100, 147, 173, 198, 261
Argyropoulos, 188
Arlotto, Piovano, 67
Asceticism, 48-9
Astrology, 42-3
Atrocities, 18, 76-7, 172, 177
Baglione, Malatesta, 260 fol.
Bakers, 32
Bandello, Matteo, 29, 222, 223
Bande Nere, Giovanni delle, 281, 282, 285
Bandini, 72-4, 78, 214
Banishment, 28, 32, 46n., 55, 113, 163, 270
Bankers and banking, 16, 18, 31-2, 53-4, 59, 72, 83, 177-8
Bankruptcy, penalties for, 31
Banners, 31
Barbers, 92
Bardi, Alessandra de’, 112-14
Bardi, Contessina de’, 60
Beacons, 180
Bernardino, Fra (of Siena), 41-2, 105, 109
Bicci, de’: see Medici, Giovanni de’
Birth customs, 107-8
Bisticci, Vespasiano, 48-9, 114, 141-143, 185, 199-200
Blacksmiths, 32
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 21, 187-8
Bonatto, Guido, 43
Bonaventuri, Pietro, 300, 302
Borgia, Cesare, 171-5
Boscoli, Pietro-Paolo, 179n.
Botticelli, Sandro, 61, 70n., 169, 200, 202, 212-13
Bracciolini, 72-5
Branda, Cardinal, 48-9
Bridges, 88
Bruciolo, Antonio, 46n.
Brunelleschi, Filippo, 36, 52, 59, 93, 133, 202-3, 217 fol.
Bruni, Leonardo, 192-4
Buildings, 21, 246-7
Bull-fighting, 183
Buondelmonte, 13-14
Burghers, 139 fol., 27; houses of, 95; and peasants, 103-4; home-life, X03-4, 108
Butchers, 32
Byron, Lord, 69n.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Foreword
- CONTENTS
- Illustrations
- I A City divided against Itself
- II The Signoria and Florentine Trade
- III Various Aspects of the Florentine Character
- IV Cosimo de’ Medici and the Advent of the Bankers
- V Lorenzo the Magnificent: an Era of Culture and Violence
- VI The Last Days of Lorenzo: a Turning-point in the Daily Life of Florence
- VII A Tour of the City and the Countryside
- VIII Home-Life in Florence—I
- IX Home-Life in Florence—II
- X Public Life
- XI Burghers, Artisans and Taxpayers
- XII The Barbarian and the Prophet
- XIII Uncertainty of the Times
- XIV The Intellectuals
- XV Lives of the Artists
- XVI Feminism
- XVII Stories and Anecdotes
- XVIII Life in the City during the Siege and under the Tyranny of Alessandro
- XIX Florence under the Yoke
- XX The Decline: the Gallery of Masks
- Index