Population, Wealth, and Patronage in Medieval and Renaissance Perugia

Blanshei, Sarah Rubin

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“…Still, age and seniority, though often attacked, retained considerable power as social mobility declined and the great patriarchal family clans continued to dominate the political and cultural landscape of late Renaissance Italy (Blanshei 1979; Romano 2005). Old men made up a cohort of ‘sovereigns, ministers, warriors, diplomats, merchants, [and] churchmen’ performing most of the key roles in the various spheres of public life (Minois 1989: 288).…”

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“…More than before, significant numbers of the elite achieved and held on to old age and were materially rewarded for doing so. Young men were less able to leave the paternal home and set up independent households (as was the case, for example, in England and Holland) leading to multigenerational households (amongst the elite) where three or more generations were not uncommonly represented within the same household (Blanshei 1979: 605; Herlihy 1972: 10).…”

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Renaissance treatises on ‘successful ageing’

Gilleard

2011

Ageing and Society

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Numerous treatises on 'successful ageing' were published during the late Renaissance. Zerbi's Gerontocomia and Cornaro's Trattato della Vita Sobria, in particular, have been considered as early precursors of modern gerontology. In this paper I revisit these two treatises, outline their content and common themes, and set them in the context of other literature written about ageing in this period. The rise of civic humanism, increased access to classical texts on health and hygiene, and the emergence of environmental and public health concerns, particularly in the Italian city states, are some of the factors that influenced this writing. The powerful yet insecure position of older men in the upper ranks of Italian society gave the topic of 'seniority' added relevance. While their roots in the scholastic tradition prevent them from serving as forerunners of scientific gerontology, their humanist concern with 'lifestyle' succeeds in making them the prototypes of the 'do-it-yourself' manuals for successful ageing that now proliferate in our late modernity.

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Renaissance treatises on ‘successful ageing’

Gilleard

2011

Ageing and Society

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“…At the end of the fifteenth century, Perugia was an important trading city in central Italy (Banker, 1997), approximately two-thirds of the way from Venice to Rome; and was developing as an important centre for art and culture (Blanshei, 1979). Various trade and craft guilds had become essential institutions in the life and politics of the city, and membership of one of the guilds was a requirement for political office.…”

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“…Construction of the Collegio del Cambio building in Perugia on behalf of the Moneychangers Guild was completed in 1457. The programme for the decoration of the entrance hall, where merchants and moneychangers met and discussed their business -the Sala -was drawn up by the humanist, Francesco Maturanzio, and the painting of the frescos on the walls and ceiling were commissioned by the guild in 1496 and undertaken by another humanist, Perugino (Blanshei, 1979). 15 The frescos were completed between 1498 and 1500.…”

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Pacioli and humanism: pitching the text in Summa Arithmetica

McCarthy

Sangster²,

Stoner

2008

Accounting History

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Despite the wide cross-disciplinary influence of Fra' Luca Pacioli's Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (Summa), it has been criticized as being both difficult to read and written in a mixture of bad Italian and bad Latin; but, paradoxically, intellectuals of Pacioli's day praised the style of writing in Summa. Can both viewpoints be correct? The answer to this question is sought by identifying what may have inspired Pacioli to write Summa in the manner he did. In doing so, the article considers the times in which he lived and, in particular, the impact that Renaissance Humanism and Humanist Education may have had upon his writing style. The article finds both views were correct in their own timeframes and contexts and that Pacioli's writing style was both an appropriate one with which to address a contemporary merchant society and one which would impress and gain the approval of his fellow humanist educators and patrons.

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“…Occupational structure and the distribution of wealth are analysed from the tax documents (the use of the Gini index, as in Blanshei's recent article on Perugia, would have enabled some interesting comparisons to be made. 3 The political chapters are based on the collective biographies of the 225 aldermen and councillors in office between 1500 and 1600, a study of a political 61ite much like that offered by Evans for Norwich. Religious attitudes are investigated via the formulae for the bequests of souls in the 1725 surviving citizens' wills of the period.…”

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The early modern town—its history and historians: a review article

Burke¹

1981

Urban History

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Twenty-five years ago, when Jean Delumeau published his study of sixteenth-century Rome, contributions to the social (as opposed to the institutional) history of early modern towns were still rare events. Since about 1960, the trickle has become a flood. Historians from different countries have contributed to this development to varying degrees and in different ways; the French, with a shelf of massive doctoral theses; the Italians, with multi-volume histories of specific cities; the Germans, with symposia on small towns, and so on. The virtually simultaneous publication of three monographs on provincial English towns, one of them by an American scholar (J. T. Evans), prompts a question about the place of Anglo-American research in this picture. Are there distinctive English and American schools of preindustrial urban history? If so, is this because the towns studied are different, or the historical traditions of the students?

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Population, Wealth, and Patronage in Medieval and Renaissance Perugia

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Renaissance treatises on ‘successful ageing’

Renaissance treatises on ‘successful ageing’

Pacioli and humanism: pitching the text in Summa Arithmetica

The early modern town—its history and historians: a review article

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