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The manufacture of luxury textiles, such as silk, was central to an Italian Renaissance economy based on status and conspicuous consumption. From the rapidly changing fashions that drove demand to the jobs created for craftsmen, weavers and merchants, the wealth and prestige associated with silk throughout Europe made it Italy's leading export industry. In this work, Luca Molà examines the silk industry in Renaissance Venice amid changing markets, suppliers, producers and government regulations. Drawing on archival research and European scholarship, Molà documents the innovations Venetians made in manufacturing and marketing to spur the silk industry. He uncovers the alliance between manufacturers and government to promote the industry in a changing international economic environment. Through flexible laws, quality was regulated to meet the varying requirements of an increasing range of customers. Molà also analyzes state policy that favoured the development and organization of silk producers throughout the Terraferma.

HISTORY --- Europe / Italy --- 677.027 --- 677.37 --- 391 <45> --- 945.34 VENEZIA --- Textile dyeing, printing and finishing --- Silk --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Italië --- Geschiedenis van Italië: Veneto; Venezia; Venezia Tridentina--(reg./lok.) --- Silk industry --- Government policy --- History. --- 945.34 VENEZIA Geschiedenis van Italië: Veneto; Venezia; Venezia Tridentina--(reg./lok.) --- 391 <45> Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Italië --- 677.37 Silk --- 677.027 Textile dyeing, printing and finishing --- History --- Silk manufacture and trade --- Textile industry --- Government policy&delete&

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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 Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion industry, focusing on Florence, a city founded on cloth, a city of wool manufacturers, finishers, and merchants, of silk dyers, brocade weavers, pearl dealers, and goldsmiths. From the artisans who designed and assembled the outfits to the families who amassed fabulous wardrobes, Frick's wide-ranging and innovative interdisciplinary history explores the social and political implications of clothing in Renaissance Italy's most style-conscious city. Frick begins with a detailed account of the industry itself -- its organization within the guild structure of the city, the specialized work done by male and female workers of differing social status, the materials used and their sources, and the garments and accessories produced. She then shows how the driving force behind the growth of the industry was the elite families of Florence, who, in order to maintain their social standing and family honor, made continuous purchases of clothing -- whether for everyday use or special occasions -- for their families and households. And she concludes with an analysis of the clothes themselves: what pieces made up an outfit; how outfits differed for men, women, and children; and what colors, fabrics, and design elements were popular.

History of Italy --- History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- Florence --- Clothing trade --- -Costume --- -Tailoring --- -391 <45> --- 316.344.42 <45> --- Clothing and dress --- Fashion --- Fancy dress --- Motion pictures --- Opera --- Stage costume --- Theater --- Theatrical costume --- Decorative arts --- Apparel industry --- Clothiers --- Clothing industry --- Garment industry --- Rag trade --- Textile industry --- Tailors --- History --- -History --- -Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Italië --- Elite--Italië --- Costume --- Florence (Italy) --- -Social life and customs --- 316.344.42 <45> Elite--Italië --- 391 <45> Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Italië --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Italië --- Tailoring --- 391 <45> --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Forence (Tuscany) --- Social life and customs. --- Italy --- To 1500 --- 15th century --- Social life and customs --- Fashion industry --- Florence (Tuscany)

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Clothing and dress --- Salvation --- Christian art and symbolism --- Clothing and dress in art. --- Vêtements --- Salut --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Vêtements dans l'art --- History --- Religious aspects. --- Christianity. --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- 391-057 --- 391 <45> --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Personen naar hun bezigheden, beroep, opleiding --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Italië --- 391 <45> Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Italië --- 391-057 Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Personen naar hun bezigheden, beroep, opleiding --- Vêtements --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Vêtements dans l'art --- Clothing and dress in art --- Soteriology --- Economy of God --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Fashion --- Undressing --- Costume in art --- Religious aspects --- Christianity

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From Latin humanists to popular writers, Italian Renaissance culture spawned a lively debate on vocational choice and the nature of profession. In The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy, George W. McClure examines the turn this debate took in the second half of the Renaissance, when the learned 'praise and rebuke' of profession began to be complemented with more popular forms of discourse, and when less learned vocations made their voice heard. Focusing primarily on sources assembled and published in the sixteenth century, McClure's study explores professional themes in comic, festive, and popular print culture. A pivotal figure is Tomaso Garzoni, a monk whose popular encyclopedia, Universal Piazza of all the Professions of the World, was published in 1585. A funnel for earlier traditions and an influence on later ones, this massive compendium treated over 150 categories of profession - juxtaposing the world of philosophers and poets, lawyers and physicians, merchants and artisans, teachers and printers, cooks and chimneysweeps, prostitutes and procurers. If the conventional view is that Italian Renaissance society generally grew more aristocratic in the later period, this and other sources reveal a professional ethos more democratic in nature and bespeak the full cultural discovery of the middling and lowly professions in the late Renaissance.

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