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Dressing Renaissance Florence
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Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Carole Collier Frick is an associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

Reviews

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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