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Creator
Date
2016
Location
Massachusettes
United States
United States
Media format
Printed text
Extent
235 pages
Language
English
Size
25 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 345593
Folger call number: CB361 .R67 2016
Folger holdings ID: 496395
Folger call number: CB361 .R67 2016
Folger holdings ID: 496395
Summary
"The Renaissance mattered to everyday people. Cultural Legitimacy recovers the cultural and intellectual lives of 147 Venetians of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries from household inventories that recorded their book ownership, from the philosophical ruminations they inserted (illegally) into their final wills and testaments, and from the laconic memoranda of mental universes wedged into the narrow margins of account books. Part I presents a broad view of the Venetian Renaissance as it unfolded in the houses and shops of artisans, merchants and professionals. Part II maps the worlds of three eloquent physicians: Nicolò Massa (1485-1569); Francesco Longo (1506-1576), and Alberto Rini (d.1599). These university-trained doctors left longer documentary trails than innkeepers, wives of goldsmiths and perfumers, apothecaries, parish priests, and retail merchants. Yet physicians had more in common with other men and women in the middle ranks than we might assume. While both popular and professional histories can make it seem as if Renaissance culture touched only aristocrats and the geniuses on their payrolls, this study reveals literary values inspiring people who did any number of things to feed their families."--Provided by publisher
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Part I: Venice's reading public -- Testamentary humanism -- Part II: Nicolò Massa, a self-made man of letters -- Francesco Longo's philosophical testaments -- Cultural life in the journals of Alberto Rini
Also known as
Extended title: Everyday Renaissances : the quest for cultural legitimacy in Venice / Sarah Gwyneth Ross
Related names
author: Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, 1975-