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Giovanni and Lusanna : Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence

ISBN: 9780520244955 | 0520244958
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Pub. Date: 2/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
Gene Brucker is Shepard Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
This compelling account of a wronged woman in Renaissance Florence, first published in 1986, is a fascinating view of Florentine society and its attitudes on love, marriage, class, and gender. Lusanna was a beautiful woman from a middle-class background who, in 1455, brought suit against Giovanni, her aristocratic lover, when she learned he had contracted to marry a woman of his own class. Blending scholarship with insi... MORE
Preface to the 2005 Editionvii
Preface to the First Editionxiii
The Context
1(14)
The History of a Relationship
... MORE15(24)
The Quest for Justice
39(38)
Love, Marriage, and the Social Order
77(34)
Epilogue
111(12)
References123(14)
Sources for Illustrations137

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