Dressing Renaissance Florence Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing

Carole Collier Frick, "Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing "
English | ISBN: 0801882648 | 2005 | 364 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 2 MB + 2 MB
As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In