num_pages: 208
description: Although the luxurious spending habits of Italians in the Renaissance are well known this is the first comprehensive study of the sumptuary laws that attempted to regulate the consumption of luxuries. Catherine Kovesi Killerby provides a chronological geographical and thematic survey of more than three hundred laws enacted in over forty cities throughout Italy and sets them in their social context.
language: English
title: Sumptuary Law in Italy 1200-1500
publisher: Clarendon Press