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Florence ducal capital, 1530-1630

R. Burr Litchfield
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps, Tables, and Charts
  • Abbreviations and Notes
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Florence as Capital
    • Background under the Republic
    • The Ideal City
    • Florence and its Territory
    • Methodological Discursus
    • Underlying Spatial Patterns
  • Chapter 2 Ducal Initiatives
    • Cosimo I de' Medici
    • Ducal Palaces
    • Ducal Processions
    • The Ducal Court
      • Formation of the court
      • Courtiers' residences
      • New palaces of courtiers
      • Court service personnel
    • Montaigne on Ducal Tuscany
  • Chapter 3 The Church
    • Church and State after Trent
    • The Ghetto
    • Parish Churches and the Secular Clergy
    • Monasteries of Monks and Friars
    • Convents of Nuns
    • Hospitals
    • Church Processions
    • Confraternities
  • Chapter 4 Patrician Responses
    • Transition to the Duchy
    • Identifying the Patriciate
    • Patrician Residential Mobility
      • The changing relationship to Gonfaloni
      • The new fashionable neighborhoods
      • Aspects of patrician mobility
      • Family experiences
      • Patrician widows
      • Family chapels
      • Patrician palaces
      • The Via Tornabuoni strip
  • Chapter 5 Shops and Shopkeepers
    • The Economic Downturn
    • The Morphology of Shopkeeping in 1561
      • The central market area
      • The textile industry
      • The clothing trades
      • Other industries
      • Building
      • Dealing
    • The Identity of Shopkeepers
    • The Ducal Court and the Economic Downturn
    • The Spectrum of Shops in 1642
  • Chapter 6 Artisans and Workers
    • Population Growth and Inflation
    • Identifying the Working Poor
      • Methodological issues
      • People without surnames
      • Migrants
      • Nonpatrician widows
    • Groups of Industrial Workers
      • Shoemakers and tailors
      • Textile workers
    • The Service Sector
      • Servants
      • Ducal functionaries at different levels
      • Marginal workers
    • Debtors and Creditors, Renters and Owners
      • Renters and owners
      • Housing examples of particular groups
      • The movement of rents and house prices
    • Festivities and Popular Pastimes
      • Festivities at different levels
      • The Potenze
    • The 1620s Crisis and the Spedale dei Mendicanti
  • Chapter 7 The Plague of 1630-33
    • The Onset
    • Plague Mortality
    • The Geography of Infection
    • The Quarantine
    • The Madonna of Impruneta
    • Galileo at Court
    • Aftermath of the Plague
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1. Florence as Capital
    • Chapter 2. Ducal Initiatives
    • Chapter 3. The Church
    • Chapter 4. Patrician Responses
    • Chapter 5. Shops and Shopkeepers
    • Chapter 6. Artisans and Workers
    • Chapter 7. The Plague of 1630-33
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SCN 67.1-2 (2009): 1-4 http://repositories.tdl.org/tdl/handle/2249.1/9296
AHR 115.2 (April 2010): 632-633 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/ahr.115.2.632
JIH 41.2 (Autumn 2010): 294-295 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/JINH_r_00073
Related Titles
HEB IdTitleAuthorsPublication Information
heb00019.0001.001 The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence. Brucker, Gene A. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
heb00471.0001.001 The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History. Goldthwaite, Richard A. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
heb01278.0001.001 Tuscans and Their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427. Herlihy, David, and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
heb00483.0001.001 Emergence of a Bureaucracy: The Florentine Patricians, 1530-1790. Litchfield, R. Burr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
heb01283.0001.001 The Government of Florence under the Medici (1434-1494). Rubinstein, Nicolai. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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City walls

City walls

Map 1.01. City walls

Sixteenth-century Florence: Grid map of numbered squares.

Sixteenth-century Florence: Grid map of numbered squares.

Map 1.02a. Sixteenth-century Florence: Grid map of numbered squares.

Street outline with quarters and gonfaloni.

Street outline with quarters and gonfaloni.

Map 1.02b. Street outline with quarters and gonfaloni.

All households, 1551.

All households, 1551.

Map 1.03. All households, 1551.

Households with no servants, 1551.

Households with no servants, 1551.

Map 1.04. Households with no servants, 1551.

Female-headed households (widows), 1551.

Female-headed households (widows), 1551.

Map 1.05. Female-headed households (widows), 1551.

All shops, 1561.

All shops, 1561.

Map 1.06. All shops, 1561.

Patrician households, 1551.

Patrician households, 1551.

Map 1.07. Patrician households, 1551.

Patrician households with 2 or more servants, 1551.

Patrician households with 2 or more servants, 1551.

Map 1.08. Patrician households with 2 or more servants, 1551.

Medici households in 1551.

Medici households in 1551.

Map 1.09. Medici households in 1551.

Republican processional routes.

Republican processional routes.

Map 2.01a. Republican processional routes.

Entrances of the duchesses.

Entrances of the duchesses.

Map 2.01b. Entrances of the duchesses.

The court in 1551.

The court in 1551.

Map 2.02a. The court in 1551.

The court in 1561.

The court in 1561.

Map 2.02b. The court in 1561.

The court in 1632.

The court in 1632.

Map 2.02c. The court in 1632.

Households in service to the court, 1551.

Households in service to the court, 1551.

Map 2.03a. Households in service to the court, 1551.

Households in service to the court, 1561.

Households in service to the court, 1561.

Map 2.03b. Households in service to the court, 1561.

Households in service to the court, 1632.

Households in service to the court, 1632.

Map 2.03c. Households in service to the court, 1632.

Parish churches, 1551.

Parish churches, 1551.

Map 3.01. Parish churches, 1551.

Monasteries of monks and friars, 1551.

Monasteries of monks and friars, 1551.

Map 3.02a. Monasteries of monks and friars, 1551.

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