Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence
Title | Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | Francis William Kent |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2015-03-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400869757 |
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.
Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence
Title | Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
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Release | 1937 |
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The Family in Renaissance Florence
Title | The Family in Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Battista Alberti |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Pages | 125 |
Release | 1994-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1478607688 |
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.
Family Life in Renaissance Florence
Title | Family Life in Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | Francis William Kent |
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Pages | |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Families |
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The Family in Renaissance Florence
Title | The Family in Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Battista Alberti |
Publisher | Columbia : University of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Social Science |
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"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.
The Family in Renaissance Florence
Title | The Family in Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Battista Alberti |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
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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.
A Patron Family Between Renaissance Florence, Rome, and Naples
Title | A Patron Family Between Renaissance Florence, Rome, and Naples PDF eBook |
Author | Vincenzo Sorrentino |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2022-04-19 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1000569055 |
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.