1st Edition
Exploring Sixteenth-Century Italy Through the Poems of Giulio Cesare Croce
Croce’s Bologna
Introduction
1: City Life: the Good, the Bad, and the In-Between
The Most Pleasing Mascherate
A Praise and Condemnation of Prison
The Lamentation of the Paupers who Rent a Home and Must Pay Rent
The Lamentation of the Drunks
Predictions and a Stupendous and Marvellous Almanac About the Present Year
2: Dalla Campagna alla Città: The Margins of Urban and Rural Life in Early Modern Italy
A Debate between Wheat Bread and Bean Bread for Superiority
The Lamentation of the Harvesters
The Lamentation of the Bandits
3: Fame, Freddo: Calamities in Early Modern Italy
The Most Solemn Triumph of Abundance
Lamentation For the Poverty Caused by the Extreme Cold
Banquet of the Ill-Fed
The Despair of the Failed Carnival
4: The Comedy and Contradictions of Hierarchy
Description of the Life of Giulio Cesare Croce
The Cleverest Tricks of Bertoldo
The Greatness of Poverty
The Song of the Porcellina
Appendix
Currencies
Original Texts
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Lena Breda is a doctoral student in history at the University of Oxford. Lena was a 2021 Fulbright Scholar to Bologna, Italy and received her Masters in Early Modern History from the University of Cambridge in 2022. She received a B.A. in History with a Minor in Italian Language and Culture from the University of Chicago in 2020. Lena studies early modern Italy with a focus on inequality, urban life, famine, and political communication across socio-economic strata.
