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Cultural Representations in Italy:
Tuscan Cities, 1250-1500
Ital 138ax: Fall 2004
Edward D. English
Reader
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.
Bernardino of Siena, “On Usury” transl. in University of Chicago
Readings in Western Civilization, 5: The Renaissance. Eds. Eric
Cochrane and Julius Kirshner. Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 1986, pp. 128-38.
II.
Bernardino of Siena, “On the Vanity of the World and Especially of
Women” transl. in University of Chicago Readings in Western
Civilization, 5: The Renaissance. Eds. Eric Cochrane and Julius
Kirshner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 117-28.
III.
“Commerce Confronts the Usury Problem” transl. in University of
Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, 4: Medieval Europe. Eds.
Julius Kirshner and Karl F. Morrison. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 312-36.
IV.
Omitted.
V.
Nicholas Davidson, “Theology, Nature and the Law: Sexual Sin and
Sexual Crime in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century”
in Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy. Eds. Trevor Dean
and K. J. P. Lowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp.
74-98.
VI.
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, “The Cruel Mother: Maternity, Widowhood,
and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries” in
Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1985, pp. 117-31.
VII.
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, “The Griselda Complex: Dowry and
Marriage Gifts in the Quattrocento” in Women, Family, and Ritual in
Renaissance Italy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985, pp.
213-46.
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VIII. Brunetto Latini, “The Book of the Treasure (an Excerpt)” in Medieval
Political Theory - A Reader: The Quest for the Body Politic, 1100-1400.
Eds. Gary Nederman and Kate Langdon Frohan. New York: Routledge,
1993, pp. 71-96.
IX.
Alessandra Macinghi negli Strozzi, “Letters” transl. in University of
Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, 5: The Renaissance. Eds. Eric
Cochrane and Julius Kirshner. Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 1986, pp. 106-117.
X.
James M. Saslow, “Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior,
Identity, and Artistic Expression” in Hidden from History: Reclaiming
the Gay and Lesbian Past. Eds. Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha
Vicinus and George Chauncey, Jr. New York: New American Library,
1989, pp. 90-105, 503-506.
XI.
Richard P. Saller and David I. Kertzer, “Historical and Anthropological
Perspectives on Italian Family Life” in The Family in Italy from
Antiquity to the Present. Eds. David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Saller.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, pp. 1-19.
XII.
Peter P. A. Biller, “Birth-Control in the West in the Thirteenth and Early
Fourteenth Centuries,” Past and Present, 94 (February, 1982), 3-26.
XIII. Timothy Verdon, “Christianity, the Renaissance, and the Study of
History: Environments of Experience and Imagination” in Christianity
and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the
Quattrocento. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990, pp. 1-37.
XIV.
Alberto Tenenti, “Death in History: The Function and Meaning of Death
in Florentine Historiography of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”
in Life and Death in Fifteenth-Century Florence. Eds. Marcel Tetel,
Ronald Witt and Rona Goffen. Durham: Duke University Press, 1989,
pp. 1-15, 193-97.
XV.
Randolph Starn, “The Republican Regime of the Room of Peace in
Siena, 1338-40,’ Representations, 18 (Spring) 1-33.
XVI.
Caroline Walker Bynum, “Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious
Significance of Food to Medieval Women” in Social History of Western
Civilization, Volume I: Readings from the Ancient World to the
Seventeenth Century. 2nd ed. Ed. Richard M. Golden. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1992, pp. 163-78.
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XVII. Diana Webb, “Introduction” and “Conclusion” in Patrons and
Defenders: The Saints in the Italian City-States. London: Tauris
Academic Studies, 1996, pp. 1-30, 317-22.
XVIII. “The Big Sheep (Ser Giovanni Fiorentino)” transl. in Italian
Renaissance Tales. Ed. Janet Levarie Smarr. Rochester MI: Solaris
Press, Inc., 1983, pp. 21-47.
XIX.
“Fatso the Carpenter (Antonio Manetti)” [= “The Fat Woodcarver” in An
Italian Renaissance Sextet] transl. in Italian Renaissance Tales. Ed.
Janet Levarie Smarr. Rochester MI: Solaris Press, Inc., 1983, pp. 105133.
XX.
“Giacoppo (Lorenzo de’ Medici) )” [= “Giacoppo” in An Italian
Renaissance Sextet] transl. in Renaissance Comic Tales of Love,
Treachery, and Revenge. Eds. Valerie Martone and Robert L. Martone.
New york: Italica Press, 1994, pp. 141-52.
XXI.
Francesco Petrarca, “How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State” transl. in
The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society.
Eds. Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1978, pp. 35-78.
XXII. Omitted.
XXIII. Gene Brucker, ed., “The Family” in The Society of Renaissance
Florence: A Documentary Study. New York: Harper & Row, Inc., 1971,
pp. 28-73.