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The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence: Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers book cover

1st Edition

The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers

By Alessia Meneghin Copyright 2020
250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been ​​the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic activity of rigattieri in fifteenth-century Florence. It offers invaluable information on issues such as the... Read more

Part I: The Guild, Identity of Artifices and Economic Activities

1. Methods and Problems in the Study of the Guild of Second-Hand Dealers in Florence

2. The Structure of the Guild and Statutes

3. The Rigattieri in the Socio-Economic System of Fifteenth-Century Florence

Part II: Work, Investments and Social Mobility

4. Credit, Concurrent Activities and the Appraisal of Goods

5. Land Ownership, Investments and Profits

6. From Sellers of Old Rags to the Urban Elite

Conclusions

Biography

Alessia Meneghin is the author of a book on the Tuscan Misericordie and co-editor of two volumes on Domestic Devotions. Her publications on Renaissance Italy and Tuscany explore issues of wet-nursing, food, credit, objects and practices of devotion, miracles, consumption, identity and social mobility of the Arti Minori.

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