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- Book Title
- Mattress Maker's Daughter : The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovan
- ISBN
- 9780674724662
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Mattress Maker's Daughter : the Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni De' Medici and Livia Vernazza
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Subject
- Women, Royalty, Cultural Heritage, Europe / Italy, Sociology / General, Europe / Renaissance, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions, Military
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Series
- I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 28.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 454 Pages
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A Mattress Maker's Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend, told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged warrior-prince into marrying her, and the family takes revenge. He is don Giovanni de' Medici, son of the Florentine grand duke; she is Livia Vernazza, daughter of a Genoese artisan. They live in luxury for a while, far from Florence, and have a child. Then, Giovanni dies, the family pounces upon the inheritance, and Livia is forced to return from riches to rags. Documents, including long-lost love letters, reveal another story behind the legend, suppressed by the family and forgotten. Brendan Dooley investigates this largely untold story, among the various settings where episodes occurred, between Florence, Genoa, Venice. In the course of explaining their improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter explores early modern emotions, material culture, heredity, absolutism, and religious tensions at the crux of one of the great transformations in European culture, society, and statecraft. Giovanni and Livia exemplify changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gave way to the culture of Counter Reformation and Early Modern Europe.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674724666
ISBN-13
9780674724662
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175725076
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Mattress Maker's Daughter : the Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni De' Medici and Livia Vernazza
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Women, Royalty, Cultural Heritage, Europe / Italy, Sociology / General, Europe / Renaissance, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions, Military
Publication Year
2014
Series
I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
454 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
28.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2013-031633
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series Volume Number
12
Lc Classification Number
Dg738.29.M43d66 2014
Reviews
Once again, Brendan Dooley demonstrates his gift for showing how a minor, forgotten episode can illuminate processes of social and cultural change., This is a deliciously erudite exploration of the intertwined lives of a bastard of the Medici who strove for a stable foothold in the family and of the ex-prostitute he struggled, ultimately in vain, to hoist into high society as his consort. Ranging across half a continent, the book meditates on war, politics, science, the plastic arts, poetry, self-knowledge, and the odd, sad accidents of love. It is great fun to read., This exciting story of love flouting social convention becomes, in Dooley 'e(tm)s meticulously researched and vividly rendered reconstruction, a window onto a wide swath of social history in early modern Genoa, Venice, and Florence'e"from the difficult life of a family of mattress makers, to the luxury, wars, suspicious deaths, and legal skullduggery which emanated from the Medici court in the age of Galileo., Once again, Brendan Dooley demonstrates his gift for showing how a minor, forgotten episode can illuminate processes of social and cultural change. -- Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University This exciting story of love flouting social convention becomes, in Dooley's meticulously researched and vividly rendered reconstruction, a window onto a wide swath of social history in early modern Genoa, Venice, and Florence--from the difficult life of a family of mattress makers, to the luxury, wars, suspicious deaths, and legal skullduggery which emanated from the Medici court in the age of Galileo. -- Ann Blair, Harvard University This is a deliciously erudite exploration of the intertwined lives of a bastard of the Medici who strove for a stable foothold in the family and of the ex-prostitute he struggled, ultimately in vain, to hoist into high society as his consort. Ranging across half a continent, the book meditates on war, politics, science, the plastic arts, poetry, self-knowledge, and the odd, sad accidents of love. It is great fun to read. -- Thomas Cohen, York University, Canada, This exciting story of love flouting social convention becomes, in Dooley 'e(tm)s meticulously researched and vividly rendered reconstruction, a window onto a wide swath of social history in early modern Genoa, Venice, and Florence'e"from the difficult life of a family of mattress-makers, to the luxury, wars, suspicious deaths, and legal skullduggery which emanated from the Medici court in the age of Galileo.
Table of Content
Contents Illustrations Preface Prologue 1. The Family Business 2. The Mattress Maker's Daughter 3. The Heart of Combat 4. Writing the Passions 5. A Place for Things 6. Mind over Matter 7. Durable Goods 8. Time and Memory Postscript Notes Acknowledgments Index
Copyright Date
2014
Dewey Decimal
945.07092
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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