List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Guilds and Labor
1. Tailors and the Guild System
2. The Craftspeople
3. Tailors in Fifteenth-Century Society
Part II: Family Honor
4. Tailoring Family Honor
5. Family Fortunes in Clothes: The Parenti, Pucci, and Tosa
6. The Making of Wedding Gowns
7. Trousseaux for Marriage and Convent: The Minerbetti Sisters
Part III: Fashion and the Commune
8. The Clothes Themselves
9. Sumptuary Legislation and the "Fashion Police"
10. Visualizing the Republic in Art: An Essay on Painted
Clothes
Conclusion
Appendixes
1. Currency and Measures
2. Categories of Clothiers
3. Cloth Required for Selected Garments
4. Two Minerbetti Trousseaux
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
Carole Collier Frick is an associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
A useful and timely undertaking.
—Elizabeth Currie, Textile History
A pioneering book on the sartorial extravagance and fashions in
Florence.
—L. R. N. Ashley, Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
A wonderful book, after reading which we will not be able to
visualise Renaissance Florence in the same way again.
—Catherine Kovesi Killerby, Reviews in History
This lively book should convince any skeptic that fashion was a
serious Renaissance business.
—Diane Owen Hughes, Renaissance Quarterly
This study nicely opens up a little-studied domain of Renaissance
culture and shows the way to linking mundane craft with the dearest
social aspirations of the Florentine elite.
—American Historical Review
The Johns Hopkins University Press is to be congratulated for
publishing this imaginative book linking the history of technology
and guilds with social history, with the study of costume, and with
artistic iconography . . . This book will be a delight for scholar
and general reader alike.
—Daryl M. Hafter, Enterprise and Society
Frick's thorough treatment of Renaissance costume has set a new
standard of excellence for scholars working on costume of any
age.
—Sandra Sider, H-Italy, H-Net Reviews
The final sections of this valuable study on sumptuary legislation
and the representation of clothes in art are perhaps the most
effective in drawing out the significance of clothing in
understanding social relationships and social power in Renaissance
Florence.
—Graeme Murdock, History
Seldom does one come across such a valuable and entertaining
book.
—Alana White, Renaissance Magazine
An important addition not just to the history of clothing, but to
our understanding of social positioning within the visual field of
Florentine culture.
—John T. Paoletti, Journal of Social History
A fascinating college-level study, recommended for any collection
strong in fashion or Renaissance history.
—Bookwatch
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