The Society of Renaissance Florence

A Documentary Study

Bibliographic Data

ID16615318
AuthorsMichael P Breen, Michael Breen (0000-0002-5857-9938, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume30
Issue4
Pages1170-1171
Publication date1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2544692
OpenAlexW1520305179
LanguageEN
Citations received8

First published in 1971 by Harper & Row, The Society of Renaissance Florence is an invaluable collection of 132 original Florentine documents dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and covering a wide range of subjects from taxes to social mobility, to family, death, and civic life, to violence, crime, and morality. Also included are seldom seen documents addressing the state of the poor and such groups as Jews, heretics, sorcerers, and homosexuals. 'I have made a conscious effort to select material which reveals something about the emotions, passions, and temperaments of Renaissance Florentines. 'These documents are examples of the raw material with which the historian works, as he attempts to describe social structures, patterns of behavior, and value systems. They should convey some sense of the complexity of this society, and of the formidable task which confronts the student who seeks to generalize about its character...They can serve as models for the student interested in the problems of urban history in pre-industrial Europe.' - From the Preface

Art · Art history · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Italy: Economic History and Contemporary Issues

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