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ELIZABETH S. COHEN AND THOMAS V. COHEN

The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Cohen, Elizabeth Storr, 1946 author. | Cohen, Thomas V. (Thomas Vance), 1942 author.

Title: Daily life in Renaissance Italy / Elizabeth S. Cohen and Thomas V. Cohen.

Description: Second edition. | Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019] | Series: Greenwood Press daily life through history series, ISSN 1080-4749 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019020666 (print) | LCCN 2019020745 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440856938 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440856921 (print : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: ItalySocial life and customsTo 1500. | RenaissanceItaly.

Classification: LCC DG445 (ebook) | LCC DG445 .C48 2019 (print) | DDC 945/.05dc23

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We thank the editors at ABC-CLIO for the opportunity to revise a book that is almost twenty years old. The actual Renaissance, now long gone, has not changed a whit, but recent research has evolved and deepened so that we see that past differently. In the domain of daily life, social history has been partly subsumed, partly set aside by cultural studies in many forms. Renaissance scholarship has advanced far in studying topics that in 2001 were just opening up: spaces, urban forms, the environment, time, material culture, memory, oralities, slavery, human bodies, health, food, and sex. Bigger than all of these, the global perspective and an at least piecemeal recognition of the great diversity of human histories have reshaped the vision of, among others, those who study old Europe.

As the field of Renaissance studies elaborates, it is impossible to cover everything. In preparing a second edition, we have aimed to absorb some of the new scholarship and bibliography. Most novelly, we have added a new chapter on Italy and the world beyond its borders, on the varied people who came and went. We have also sought to rebalance our discussion on some classic topics such as religion and art-making and to better integrate material on women and gender.

As authors here, we are grateful to countless scholars, including many lively members of a new generation, who, witting or not, have informed and guided us. We are indebted, also, to the direction of the Archivio di Stato di Roma for help during the decades of archival work that enrich this book in many ways. Meanwhile, all errors and imprudent formulations are our own.

As authors we have heeded not only the many scholars who have influenced this book, but also the flow of history itself. The first edition came out just before the shock of 9/11. Since then, for urgent reasons, scholars and the general public have turned to the complex matter of Europes long, rich exchange with the Islamic world. Italy in the Renaissance figures now as more thoroughly enmeshed in cultural, economic, political, and environmental connections with other places around the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. The first edition emerged at the new millennium, a moment much sunnier than today, when it seemed to us authors and to most readers that, unlike Italians of the Renaissance, we moderns could trust that our world was reasonably safe and, thanks to our competent sciences, generally in good hands and under control. The past two decades have taught us all instead to worry deeply. We are far less sure we have either our planet or our governance under hand; our anxieties push us closer in some ways to the mind-set of Renaissance persons, whose risky world often kept them on edge.

We conclude nevertheless in tempered hope for the future. The Nonni dedicate this edition to Axel and Shoshanna, and their new, bright, many-colored generation.

Chapter notes have two principal functions. First, they identify the sources of quotations and of references to archival materials. Second, for those who wish to probe more deeply, the notes name some works of more recent scholarship in English related to the specific theme. The Resources and Bibliography section lists additional books and digital resources.

For sources cited several times, we have used short forms in the chapter notes. The full citations for those materials are here.

• BAV: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
• ASR, GTC: Archivio di Stato di Roma, Governatore, Tribunale Criminale

Leon Battista Alberti, The Family in Renaissance Florence, trans. R. Watkins (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1969).

Thomas Coryate, Coryats Crudities: hastily gobled up in five moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, vol. 1 (Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1905).

Giovanni della Casa, Galateo, trans. K. Eisenbichler and K. Bartlett (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 1986).

Fynes Moryson, Shakespeares Europe: A Survey of the Condition of Europe at the End of the 16th Century, Being Unpublished Chapters of Fynes Morysons Itinerary (1617). Second edition (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1903; reprint 1967).

Rudolf Bell, How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Thomas V. Cohen and Elizabeth S. Cohen, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Italy: Trials Before the Papal Magistrates (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).

Thomas V. Cohen, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).