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mods: 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 Sour…