Cleaning up Renaissance Italy : environmental ideals and urban practice in Genoa and Venice /
'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...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- 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