Renaissance in the Fields Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant

Name: Renaissance in the Fields Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant
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ISBN: 9780271018799

ISBN-10: 0271018798

ISBN-13: 9780271018799

Edition: 1999

Authors: Duccio Balestracci, Betsy Merideth, Paolo Squatriti, Edward Muir, Paolo Squatritti

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 6/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Duccio Balestracci is Professor of History at the University of Siena, Italy. Renaissance in the Fields is an edited and revised translation of his 1984 book, La Zappa e la retorica.



Introduction



Introduction




A Region with Pen in Hand



"Luscious Valleys" and "Magnificent Villas"



A Village Bourgeoisie



A Peasant Saga: Nanni, Meo, Giovanni, and Galgano



The Story of a Peasant: Benedetto



The Women of the Household



Cultivation and Animal Husbandry



The Lime Kiln



A Family Confronts the State



Exit from History


Appendix


Notes


Index