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Located just ten miles from Florence and completely integrated into that city's economy, the small fourteenth-century Italian town of Prato lived mostly in the shadow of its larger neighbor. Its merchants and small businessmen and -women would be forgotten today but for the survival of an unusual number of documents from Prato -- detailed account books that preserve line-by-line records of business transactions. In no other Italian town -- not even Florence -- did account books survive in such quantity. Mining this unique resource, Richard K. Marshall throws new light on the everyday business life of Renaissance Italy. Marshall begins with a look at the local marketplace in Prato, examining the way of life in this small town, explaining how business was conducted, and offering an in-depth look at the particular cases of an independent broker and a family of innkeepers. He then turns to common business practices, paying special attention to methods of bookkeeping, credit, loans, and banking in the local economy. Marshall's attention to detail helps capture the vagaries and difficulties of trying to make a living as a small merchant during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Although focused on Prato, the story told here represents that of many other small towns that thrived in the regions surrounding the great Italian cities. "The picture Marshall gives us of these Pratese shopkeepers and artisans is altogether different from the guild stereotype that dominates much of the traditional historiography... Marshall's book opens up yet another direction in taking a look at how the entrepreneurs among the working class confronted market forces in organizing their work. This is one of the central problems of the economic history of preindustrial Europe, and these small operators working away in provincial Prato are as unique a testimony as their more famous contemporary, Francesco Datini, to the development of capitalism in late medieval and Renaissanc

History of Italy --- anno 1200-1499 --- Prato --- Small business --- History --- Prato (Italy) --- Commerce --- Economic conditions --- Italy --- To 1500 --- Small business - Italy - Prato - History - To 1500. --- Prato (Italy) - Commerce - History - To 1500. --- Prat (Italy) - Economic conditions - To 1500.

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Never before has research into the benefits and drawbacks of the Chinese migration to Prato in Tuscany been presented so comprehensively in English. The recent influx of Chinese to the longstanding textile manufacturing and wholesale businesses in Prato has stirred strong emotions in the host culture and among the new arrivals alike. The breadth of the coverage of this publication is demonstrated by the full range of perspectives focused on the economic and social dilemmas being experienced. ...

Chinese --- Textile industry --- Textile workers --- Employees --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles industry --- Manufacturing industries --- Ethnology --- Social conditions. --- China --- Prato (Italy) --- Emigration and immigration.

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"This book recounts the historical development of the Italian commune of Prato. In telling the story of Prato's origins, construction, and demise, Alick McLean considers the planning, art, architecture, politics, faith, and daily life of Prato and its citizens, showing how major historical events and trends in the Italian middle ages were experienced within the architecture and streetscapes of this particular place." "The research is supported by new photography, plans, and maps. Together they provide a clear picture of what distinguishes Italy's medieval communes from Imperial Rome: the intention to serve the welfare of residents rather than the conquests or hegemony of administration."--Jacket.

Cities and towns, Medieval --- Architecture, Medieval --- Christian art and symbolism --- Sociology, Urban --- Villes médiévales --- Architecture médiévale --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Sociologie urbaine --- Prato (Italy) --- Prato (Italie) --- History. --- Histoire --- Villes médiévales --- Architecture médiévale --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- City planning --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Medieval cities and towns --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management

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Music --- Musique --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Josquin, --- Josquin, des Prez --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -Josquin des Prez --- Josquinus Pratensis --- Jodocus Pratensis --- Jodocus a Prato --- Josquin Desprez --- des Prez, Josquin --- Desprez, Josquin --- Des Prés, Josquin --- Després, Josquin --- Lebloitte, Jossequin --- Lebloitte, Josquin --- Criticism and interpretation --- Josquin, des Prez, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Josquin des Prés --- Interpretatie --- Italië --- 15e eeuw --- 16e eeuw --- Frankrijk --- Analyses

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This volume constitutes the report of the 1971 International Josquin Festival Conference held at the Julliard School of Music in New York City. The papers assembled this collection are an elegant tribute to the study of Josquin and address biographical information, source studies, style and analysis, studies on genres, individual works, performance practice, performance and interpretation, and problems in editing Josquin's music.

Music --- Musique --- Congresses --- Josquin, --- Renaissance --- #BIBC:02.43 ALAMIRE --- Conferences - Meetings --- Josquin --- De Pres, Josquin, --- Deprès, Josquin, --- Des Prés, Josquin, --- Des Prez, Josquin, --- Després, Josquin, --- Desprez, Josquin, --- Dupré, Josquin, --- Jodocus, --- Josse, --- Jusquin, --- Pres, Josquin de, --- Pres, Josquin des, --- Prez, Josquin des, --- Josquin des Prez --- Josquinus Pratensis --- Jodocus Pratensis --- Jodocus a Prato --- Josquin Desprez --- des Prez, Josquin --- Desprez, Josquin --- Des Prés, Josquin --- Després, Josquin --- Lebloitte, Jossequin --- Lebloitte, Josquin --- Music - Congresses --- Renaissance - Congresses --- Josquin, - des Prez, - -1521 - Congresses --- Josquin, - des Prez, - -1521