The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy

George W. McClure

Published by University of Toronto Press 2004

The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy

George W. McClure

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442681071

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If the conventional view is that Italian Renaissance society generally grew more aristocratic in the later period, this and other sources reveal a professional ethos more democratic in nature and bespeak the full cultural discovery of the middling and lowly professions in the late Renaissance.

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McClure George W. :

George McClure is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Chapter 1. Humanist and Theological Backgrounds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Professions at Play: Jokes, Carnevale Songs, and Parlour Games Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 3. Shuffling the Deck: Tomaso Garzoni's Universal Piazza of All the Professions of the World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 4. Learned Cooks and Culinary Lawyers: High, Middle, and Low Profession in the Universal Piazza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Chapter 5. Professions on Display: Dress and Ritual in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter 6. The Arts and the 'Art of Dying' in Venice: Vocation in a Renaissance Death Book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 7. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 390

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Published: July 2, 2004
ISBN: 9781442681071