Cohen Elizabeth S. et al. Daily Life in Renaissance Italy

Greenwood Press, 2001. — 316 p. — ISBN: 0-313-30426-2; ISSN: 1080-4749.Discover what life was like for ordinary people living in Renaissance Italy. How was their society organized? What were their homes like? What dangers did they face? These and other questions are answered in detail to provide the reader with a unique view of the world of the Italian Renaissance. A multitude of settings and socioeconomic backgrounds are presented, from urban life to country life, from upper-class to peasant-class, to paint a full portrait of the different kinds of existence of people of this culture.