Culture of profession in late Renaissance Italy /
From Latin humanists to popular writers, Italian Renaissance culture spawned a lively debate on vocational choice and the nature of profession. In The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy, George W. McClure examines the turn this debate took in the second half of the Renaissance, when the...
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
2004
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Humanist and Theological Backgrounds
- Chapter 2 Professions at Play: Jokes, Carnevale Songs, and Parlour Games
- Chapter 3 Shuffling the Deck: Tomaso Garzoni's Universal Piazza of All the Professions of the World
- Chapter 4 Learned Cooks and Culinary Lawyers: High, Middle, and Low Profession in the Universal Piazza
- Chapter 5 Professions on Display: Dress and Ritual in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice
- Chapter 6 The Arts and the 'Art of Dying' in Venice: Vocation in a Renaissance Death Book
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- NotesBibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
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- U
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