Dressing Renaissance Florence
Subtitle: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801882647
Subjects: Costume; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; Renaissance; Renaissance - History; Art; History - General History; Italy; Beauty & Grooming - General; Europe - Italy; History / Europe / General; Fashion; 15th century; Clothing trade; Florence; History; Tailoring; To 1500
First sentence: Clothing as a metaphor for the dream (or nightmare) of transformation was central to the society of Renaissance Florence from Boccaccio to Machiavelli.