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1 online resource (x, 379 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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text file |
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I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
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I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Showing the Poor a Good Time: Gender, Class, and Charitable Cultures -- Two Cultures of Charity -- "Good Mothers of the Family" -- 2. Worthy Poor, Worthy Rich: Women's Poverty and Charitable Institutions -- The Turning Wheel: Charitable Institutions and Life Cycle Poverty -- The Critical Decade -- Nights and Days at the Opera -- 3. Tightening Control: The Narrowing Politics of Charity -- Making It Work -- People versus Patricians: Civil Society and Controlling Charity -- 4. Meeting the Bottom Line: Alms, Taxes, Work, and Legacies -- Begging for Beggars: Keeping the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti Afloat -- Taxation by Other Means -- Making a Workhouse -- Deeper in Debt and Richer all the Time: Building a Legacy -- 5. The Wheel Keeps Turning: Moving Beyond the Opera -- Enclosing the Circle: Shelters and the Reform of Poor Women -- Credit Where Credit Was Due: Investing in Marriage -- Beyond Charity: Mutual Assistance and the Working Poor. |
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Note continued: 6. Baroque Piety and the Qualita of Mercy -- Bringing Discipline to Practical Charity -- The Aesthetics of Poverty and the Qualita of Mercy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Charities -- Italy -- Bologna -- History.
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Charities. |
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Italy -- Bologna. |
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History. |
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Poor -- Italy -- Bologna -- History.
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Poor. |
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Bologna (Italy) -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Italy -- Bologna -- History.
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Women. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780674067097 0674067096 (DLC) 2012018083 |
| ISBN |
9780674067929 (electronic book) |
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0674067924 (electronic book) |
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9780674067097 (alkaline paper) |
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0674067096 (alkaline paper) |
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