A Mattress Maker's Daughter The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza |
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| Author:
| Dooley, Brendan |
| Series title: | I Tatti Study in Italian Renaissance Hist Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-72466-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2014 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $109.95 |
Book Description:
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In explaining an improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter explores changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gives way to the Counter Reformation and Early Modern Europe.
In explaining an improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter explores changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gives way to the Counter Reformation and Early Modern Europe.