A Mattress Maker's Daughter : : The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza / / Brendan Dooley.
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-pr...
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Dooley, Brendan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Mattress Maker's Daughter : The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza / Brendan Dooley. 19 halftones Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (454 p.) : 19 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 12 Frontmatter -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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, including Florence, Genoa, and 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Couples Italy Biography. Mistresses Italy Biography. Princes Italy Biography. Renaissance Italy Biography. Social change Italy History 16th century. Soldiers Italy Biography. Women Italy Biography. HISTORY / Europe / Italy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674724662 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674369092 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674369092 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674369092.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- 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 |
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