The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy / / Douglas Biow.
Concerned about sanitation during a severe bout of plague in Milan, Leonardo da Vinci designed an ideal, clean city. Leonardo was far from alone among his contemporaries in thinking about personal and public hygiene, as Douglas Biow shows in The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. A concern...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 44 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Translations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. Households and Cities
- CHAPTER 2. Soap and Washerwomen
- CHAPTER 3. Latrines and Latrine-Cleaners
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index