Dressing Renaissance Florence
Subtitle: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 3, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801869396
Subjects: Costume; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; Florence; To 1500; Dress And Costume; History - General History; Italy; History: World; History; Beauty & Grooming - General; Europe - Italy; Renaissance; History / Europe / General; Clothing trade; Tailoring; 15th century
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.