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 | | Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) by Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen ISBN-10: 9780313304262 ISBN-10: 0-313-30426-2 ISBN-13: 9780313304262 ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30426-2 Hardcover 2001-09-30 Greenwood Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Discover what life was like for ordinary people living in Renaissance Italy. How was their society organized? What were their homes like? What dangers did they face? These and other questions are answered in detail to provide the reader with a unique view of the world of the Italian Renaissance. A multitude of settings and socioeconomic backgrounds are presented, from urban life to country life, from upper-class to peasant-class, to paint a full portrait of the different kinds of existence of people of this culture. Recipes, profiles of actual individuals, and over 40 illustrations help bring the period to life. Learn what they ate, what their homes were like, how they spent their leisure time, what their work was like, and much more. Modern readers will be surprised to find fundamental similarities between our lives today and the lives of these people living over 500 years ago, as well as to discover that many of the perceptions they may have of this time period are inaccurate. | ||
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Too abstract After enjoying Marcus Rautman's "Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire," I had high expectations for this Renaissance volume. After reading several chapters, however, I can only say that this volume falls short. The authors' approach is oddly abstract in nature, sticking with generalizations. The sidebar anecdotes they include don't make up for the specifics and examples that should have been part of the main text. I don't feel as if I came away with a vivid picture of what daily life was really like in Renaissance Italy. | ||