91
Note: Boldface page numbers indicate
illustrations.
abbaco
, 34
Adam, Salimbene da, 26–27
agiamenti
, 24
Albert, Charlotte d’, 22
Alexander VI (pope), 20, 21–22
Antoniano, Silvio, 36
apothecaries, 40, 65
apprentices
to artists
famous,
74
, 77, 80
handbook for, 74–75, 81
tasks of, 73–75
to doctors, 39
to surgeons, 40
artigiani
, 38
artisans
guilds and, 33, 38
places of business, 23, 38,
39
artists
apprentices to
famous,
74
, 77, 80
handbook for, 74–75, 81
tasks of, 73–75
guilds and, 72
major customers of, 72, 73, 76, 78, 80
prestige of, 73
working conditions of, 77–78
See also
individual artists
Balestracci, Duccio, 56
bancos
, 31, 32
banquets, 27–28
barbers, 40–41, 64
Bargello, 50–51,
51
Barnabites, 53
becchini
, 41, 67,
68
, 69
beds, importance of
elite class, 25–26
middle class, 41, 43
beggars, 44, 46
Birth of Venus, e
(Botticelli), 11
Black Death
beginning of, 58
cause of, 59
cures for, 59
dead
disposal of, 41, 67,
68
, 69
famous people, 62–63
number of, 58, 70
effects of, 61–62, 70, 71
end of, 71
homes and spread of, 60–61
preventive measures suggested, 65–67
symptoms, 61–62, 63
treatment of, 63–67,
64
bloodletting, 40,
64
, 65
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 61–62, 69
bolle
, 37
Bologna, 37, 48
Bondone, Giotto di (Giotto),
74
, 77
Borgia family
Cesare, 18–19, 21–23, 85
founder (Jofré de Borja y Escrivà), 20
Giovanni, 22
Lucrezia, 22
Pope Alexander VI (Roderic Llançol i de),
20, 21–22
stories about, 19–20
wealth of, 20
Botticelli, Sandro, 11
Brackett, John K., 47
brawls,
46
Brotherhood of Mercy, 44
buboes, 61, 63,
64
, 65
bubonic plague.
See
Black Death
campi
, 35
capital punishment, 50
Caroso, Fabritio, 21
cassoni
, 25, 26
Castiglione, Baldassare, 57
Catholic Church
artists and, 72, 77–78
Black Death and, 59
charitable work by, 44
corruption in, 13
Papal States,
12
popes
Alexander VI, 20, 21–22
John III, 23
Julius II, 23,
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