Cleaning up Renaissance Italy environmental ideals and urban practice in Genoa and Venice Crawshaw, Jane L. Stevens creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2023 2023 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations. 'Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy' takes us to the streets, bridges, and waterways of Renaissance Genoa and Venice, exploring how environmental management - street cleaning, water provision, waste disposal, and reuse - relates to cultural ideals, individual and collective behaviour, political reputations, and social identities. Cover -- Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy: Environmental Ideals and Urban Practice in Genoa and Venice -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- Balance, Flow, and Cleanliness in the Premodern European City -- The State of Genoa and Venice -- Chapter Structure -- 1: Constructing Ideals and Practices in Renaissance Port Cities -- Imagining Renaissance Ports -- Port Societies -- Port Spaces and Society in Genoa and Venice -- PART ONE: THE EBBS AND FLOWS OF DAILY LIFE 2: Channelling Health: The Flow of the Streets -- The Quality of the Streets -- The Surface of the Streets -- Selling on the Streets -- The Seasons of the Streets -- 3: Preserving Purity: The Symbolic and Practical Regulation of Water -- Overflows: The Infrastructure of Water Supply -- Worries about Washing -- Down the Drain -- 4: Stemming the Tide: Innovation and Purgation -- Salvage and Shipwrecks -- Petitions and Patents -- Dredging -- Repair and Reclamation -- Regulating Rivers -- PART TWO: BODIES: CONCEPTS OF BALANCE AND BLAME -- 5: Working with Waste: Space, Reuse, and the Urban Body Identifying Waste -- Placing Waste -- Handling Waste -- 6: Dealing with Disasters: Environments, People, and Piety -- Stories of Natural Disasters -- Plagues -- Storms and Floods -- Conclusion: Corruptible Cities -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-it--- Environmental management Italy Genoa History Environmental management Italy Venice History Urbanization Italy Genoa History Urbanization Italy Venice History Genoa (Italy) History 1339-1528 Genoa (Italy) History 1528-1789 Venice (Italy) History 697-1508 Venice (Italy) History 1508-1797 Environmental management Environnement Gestion Environnement Gestion Italie Gênes Histoire Environnement Gestion Italie Venise Histoire Urbanisation Italie Gênes Histoire Urbanisation Italie Venise Histoire Gênes (Italie) Histoire 1339-1528 Gênes (Italie) Histoire 1528-1789 Venise (Italie) Histoire 697-1508 Venise (Italie) Histoire 1508-1797 environmental control Environmental management Urbanization Italy Genoa Italy Venice The environment Environment and Ecology 697-1797 fast DG637.57 .C73 2023 945.182104 Cleaning up Renaissance Italy Crawshaw, Jane L. Stevens, (OCoLC)1365061101 9780191904165 0191904163 9780192637390 0192637398 019263738X 9780192637383 9780198867432 0198867433 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/46662 UIU 230801 20260318165733.1 in00005698555 eng