Dressing Renaissance Florence : families, fortunes, & fine clothing
2002, First Edition. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; bookplate of Capt Richard Campbell, OBE, RN. Item #477144
ISBN: 0801869390
Series; The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science ; 120th series. Physical description; 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-336) and index. Contents; Cover – Contents – List of Illustrations and Tables – Acknowledgments – Introduction – PART I: GUILDS AND LABOR – 1. Tailors and the Guild System – 2. The Craftspeople – 3. Tailors in Fifteenth-Century Society – PART II: FAMILY HONOR – 4. Tailoring Family Honor – 5. Family Fortunes in Clothes: The Parenti, Pucci, and Tosa – 6. The Making of Wedding Gowns – 7. Trousseaux for Marriage and Convent: The Minerbetti Sisters – PART III: FASHION AND THE COMMUNE – 8. The Clothes Themselves – 9. Sumptuary Legislation and the "Fashion Police" – 10. Visualizing the Republic in Art: An Essay on Painted Clothes – Conclusion – Appendixes – 1. Currency and Measures – 2. Categories of Clothiers – 3. Cloth Required for Selected Garments – 4. Two Minerbetti Trousseaux – Notes – Glossary. Subjects; Clothing trade – Italy – Florence – History – To 1500. Tailoring – Italy – Florence – History – To 1500.
Price: €35.00