92
women’s clothing and, 26–27
Cennini, Cennino, 73–74, 81
chamber pots, 60, 61
charity, 44–45, 48, 53
Charles VIII (king of France), 82, 85
Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, 83
Cimabue (Pepo, Bencivieni di),
74
, 77
ciompi
, 52, 54
Ciompi Rebellion (1378), 52, 54
Cipolla, Carlo M., 61
clothing, 26–27,
27
Cohen, Elizabeth Starr, 50
Cohen, omas Vance, 50
Cohn, Samuel K., Jr., 67
Cole, Bruce, 73, 75, 77
Columbus, Christopher, 14
commerce
credit and debt, 32
effect of Black Death on, 70
fair trade practices, 36–38
guilds and, 33, 38
marketplaces for, 38
See also
merchant class
commoners, 16
commonweal, 45
Confraternita della Misericordia (Brotherhood
of Mercy), 44
cotto
, 25
Craftsman Handbook, e
(Cennini), 74–75, 81
crime and criminals
Black Death and, 69
by merchants, 36–37
podestàs
and, 47, 49–50
police, 49
prevalence of, 47
punishments, 50–51,
51
trials and torture, 49–50
types of,
46
, 46–47
dance, 21
d’Andrea, Giovanni, 62
d’Anghiari, Baldaccio, 15
Dante Alighieri, 11
Davanzati, Bernardo, 32
Davanzati family palace, 24–26,
25
da Vinci, Leonardo.
See
Leonardo da Vinci
Decameron, e
(Boccaccio), 61–62
Dei Benedetto, 30
Della vita civile
(
On Civic Life
) (Palmieri), 45
dentistry, 40–41
Descartes, René, 10
Di Lando, Michele, 54
disease.
See
Black Death
Divine Comedy, e
(Dante), 11
doctors
cleanliness and, 40
education of, 38, 40
guilds for, 41
respect for, 38, 39
treatment of plague, 63–67,
64
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (Donatello),
72, 78, 80
duchies, defined, 13
Durant, Will
on Cosimo de’ Medici, 15, 78, 80
on death of Cesare Borgia, 23
on Florence, 19
on Renaissance artists, 72
on Venice, 30
education
of artists, 73–75, 81
of doctors, 38, 39
of elite, 32, 34
of lawyers, 38
of middle class, 32, 34–36
of peasants, 55
of surgeons,
42
El Greco, 10
elite
artists and, 72, 73, 76, 78, 80
banquets, 27–28
bodyguards for, 47
clothing, 26–27,
27
dance customs, 21
education of, 32, 34
homes of, 23–26,
25
, 72
ownership of slaves by, 44, 57
wealth of, 13
entertainment, 21, 57
exploration, 14
famine, 48
fines as punishment, 50
Fioravanti, Leonardo, 40–41
fleas, 59,
60
, 62, 63, 66
Florence
Ciompi Rebellion, 52, 54
commerce in, 30
as cultural center of Renaissance, 19
location of,
12
slaves in, 57
women’s clothing, 26
florins, defined, 20
food, at banquets, 28
gender
education and, 34–36
on farms, 56
trades and, 73
Genoa,
12
, 57, 66
government
democracy, 13
fair trade and, 36–38
