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Everyday Renaissances : the quest for cultural legitimacy in Venice /

The Renaissance mattered to everyday people. Cultural Legitimacy recovers the cultural and intellectual lives of 147 Venetians of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries from household inventories that recorded their book ownership, from the philosophical ruminations they inserted (illegally)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Renaissance > Italy > Venice.
Philosophy, Renaissance.
Physicians > Italy > Venice > History > 16th century.
Middle class > Italy > Venice > History > 16th century.
Middle class > Italy > Venice > History > 17th century.
Venice (Italy) > Civilization > To 1797.
Venice (Italy) > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Venice's reading public
  • Testamentary humanism
  • Part II: Nicolò Massa, a self-made man of letters
  • Francesco Longo's philosophical testaments
  • Cultural life in the journals of Alberto Rini.