Social World of Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460

Höflinge der Bürgerschaft – Bürger des Hofes

“…69 Schon Salutati investierte einen Großteil seines Vermögens in Landbesitz. 70 Kultur und Kommerz fanden erst dann zusammen, wenn reiche Städter ihre Geschäftstätigkeit durch einen adligen Repräsentationsstil verschleiern wollten oder noch besser: wenn sie ihr zugunsten eines Rentnerlebens komplett entsagten. Generationenwechsel waren dafür besonders günstig.…”

"The Lodging House of All Memories": An Accountant's Home in Renaissance Florence

“…24 Salaried employees like Michele or Alesso, without even an established family name or with one only recently acquired, lacked these essential qualifications for social distinction. But by virtue of their education, their responsibilities as administrators and assistants to the major public offices of the state, and their crucial role in the lives of their fellow citizens as indispensable facilitators of business and personal activity, they enjoyed considerable respect, and they were often on intimate terms with the patricians they served and whose houses they frequented.…”

‘John O'Gaunt's House’, Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire: a fifteenth-century landscape

“…As a result a steadily increasing number of Englishmen went to Italy to study (Mitchell 1936;Weiss 1941;Martines 1963). Tiptoft was one such visitor (Mitchell 1926;1938, pp.…”