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Peličić, Damir. "Foundations of the aspect of health care and two hundred years since the birth of Florence Nightingale 1820-1910." Zdravstvena zastita 49, no. 4 (2020): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zdravzast49-28687.

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Nursery has existed throughout history and it dates back to the very beginning of humankind. It was mentioned in church books and other written texts but not as a skill or science, but as an occupation reserved for the members of monastic orders, and also for women, that is, mothers, and nuns. First, nursing was an occupation, then a skill, but at the end of the 20th century, it became a scientific discipline. Florence Nightingale is certainly one of the most significant women in the history of nursing, medicine, and society in general because she is the pioneer of the nursing profession that has continuity up to nowadays. She was born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy and died on August 13, 1910, in London. Florence Nightingale worked as a nurse, organizer, researcher, statistician, reformer, writer and a teacher. She reformed nursery and public health. In 1860, she established the school for nurses within St. Thomas' Hospital and she took care of every protégé. In spite of all obstacles, which she was faced with, and the unenviable position of women in the 19th century, she made a huge move that changed the context of this profession forever. She had a huge influence on the Swiss philanthropist Henry Dunant (1828-1910), who was the founder of the Red Cross. In 1867, the International Council of Nurses proclaimed that her birthday would be the International Nurses Day. She was the first woman who was awarded the Medal of virtues. In 1908, she was conferred the Order of Merit by King Edward. She wrote more than 200 books and the Pledge.

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Lowe, Kate. "Elections of Abbesses and Notions of Identity in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy, with Special Reference to Venice*." Renaissance Quarterly 54, no. 2 (2001): 389–429. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3176782.

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Ceremonies of election to abbess were occasions of great display. Election to this highest of offices was the defining moment of a successful nun's life, and thereafter self-identity became crucial. This article examines an anatomy of an election of 1509 by a nun from San Zaccaria in Venice; the illustrated chronicle of Santa Maria delle Vergini in Venice dated 1523, written by an anonymous nun; and the visual representation (in a range of media) of various abbesses from Florence, Pavia, and Venice. Success in election conferred the possibility of personality and consequently legitimated personalized representation.

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Tilmans, Karin. "Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence." European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire 18, no. 4 (August 2011): 579–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2011.591059.

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Sluhovsky, Moshe. "Nuns and nunneries in Renaissance Florence." Mediterranean Historical Review 28, no. 1 (June 2013): 80–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518967.2013.773617.

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Maxson, Brian. "Histories of Florence: A Review of Seven Recent Publications on Renaissance FlorenceFlorence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy, Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy, edited by David S. Peterson with Daniel E. Bornstein. Toronto, Ontario, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008. 518 pp. $37.00 Cdn (paper).Guardians of Republicanism: The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance, by Mark Jurdjevic Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008. xiii, 199 pp. $110.00 US (cloth).Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence, by Thomas Kuehn. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvii, 237 pp. $60.00 US (cloth).The Economy of Renaissance Florence, by Richard A. Goldthwaite. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xviii, 649 pp. $66.00 US (cloth).Friendship, Love, and Trust in Renaissance Florence, by Dale Kent. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. xvii, 268 pp. $29.95 US (cloth).From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Anthony Molho, edited by Diogo Ramada Curto, Eric R. Dursteller, Julius Kirshner and Francesca Trivellato. Florence, Italy, Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2009. xix, 709 pp. 75.00 (paper).Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence, Sharon T. Strocchia. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xvi, 261 pp. $60.00 US (cloth)." Canadian Journal of History 45, no. 2 (September 2010): 335–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.45.2.335.

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Hurlburt, H. S. "Sharon T. Strocchia. Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence." Enterprise and Society 12, no. 2 (May 19, 2010): 441–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/es/khq061.

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Laven, Mary. "Review: Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy." English Historical Review 120, no. 485 (February 1, 2005): 133–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei020.

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Strocchia, Sharon T. "Savonarolan Witnesses: The Nuns of San Jacopo and the Piagnone Movement in Sixteenth-Century Florence." Sixteenth Century Journal 38, no. 2 (July 1, 2007): 393. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20478366.

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Strocchia, Sharon T. "Sisters in Spirit: The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio and Their Consorority in Early Sixteenth-Century Florence." Sixteenth Century Journal 33, no. 3 (2002): 735. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4144022.

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Yusim, Mark. "Francesco Guicciardini — from the «History of Florence» to «The History of Italy»." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 4 (2018): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s000523100000105-9.

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Lowe (book author), K. J. P., and Claire Carlin (review author). "Nuns' Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy." Renaissance and Reformation 40, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v40i1.8969.

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Sperling, Jutta. "Dowry or Inheritance? Kinship, Property, And Women's Agency in Lisbon, Venice, and Florence (1572)." Journal of Early Modern History 11, no. 3 (2007): 197–238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006507781147470.

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AbstractThe marital property regimes, inheritance practices, and kinship structures of Renaissance Italy and early modern Portugal were at opposite ends of a spectrum. In Italy, the legitimacy of marriage was defined as the outcome of dowry exchange governed by exclusio propter dotem, thus conceptually linked to the disinheritance of daughters and wives. In Portugal, where the Roman principle of equal inheritance was never abolished, domestic unions qualified as marriages insofar as joint ownership was established. Kinship structures were rigidly agnatic in Italy, but cognatic, even residually matrilineal, in Portugal. An investigation of notarial records from Lisbon, Venice, and Florence shows how women's capacity for full legal agency as property owners in both societies differed. Female legal agency, however, whether measured by women's capacity to engage in property transactions independently of their marital status (Portugal), or as the manipulation of limited legal resources, even resistance against a system of dispossession (Italy), always unfolded within the context of larger agendas that were beyond women's control, such as the processes of state formation in medieval Italy and empire-building in Portugal.

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Dean, Trevor. "Review: Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy." English Historical Review 120, no. 485 (February 1, 2005): 131–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei019.

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Horodowich, Elizabeth, Paula Findlen, Michelle M. Fontaine, and Duane J. Osheim. "Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy." Sixteenth Century Journal 35, no. 3 (October 1, 2004): 927. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20477113.

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Riggs, Christina. "Nuns and Guns: Thoughts on Heritage, Histories, and Egyptology." Review of Middle East Studies 51, no. 2 (August 2017): 221–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rms.2017.110.

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In March 2017, the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy opened an exhibition calledMissione Egitto 1903–1920, exploring the history of the archaeological excavations from which much of the museum's impressive (and impressively displayed) collection derives. Known as the Missione Archeologica Italiana, the excavations were overseen by the museum's then-director, Ernesto Schiaparelli—an esteemed Egyptologist and prominent Catholic philanthropist. “Mission” was one of several terms archaeologists used to identify their work in the colonial Middle East, including Egypt: the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo originated in 1880 as the “Mission archéologique,” to take just one example (Reid 2002, 175).

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SWEET, ROSEMARY. "BRITISH PERCEPTIONS OF FLORENCE IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY." Historical Journal 50, no. 4 (November 8, 2007): 837–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x07006401.

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ABSTRACTStudies of the Grand Tour conventionally focus upon the art and antiquities of Italy rather than the urban environment in which the tourists found themselves, and they generally stop short in the 1790s. This article examines the perceptions and representations of Florence amongst British visitors over the course of the long eighteenth century up to c. 1820 in order to establish continuity between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It considers why it was that British travellers appeared to be particularly attracted to Florence: initially they responded to congenial and pleasant surroundings, the availability of home comforts, and a sparkling social life. In the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Florence acquired new meanings for the British, who began to identify and admire a civilization which had been based upon mercantile wealth and liberty: the foundations for the Victorian celebration of Florence were laid. But the experience of Florence as a city had also changed: it was no longer simply the showcase of the Medici dukes. As a consequence the buildings, monuments, and paintings of the republican period, as well as the history which they embodied, came into focus for the first time.

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Colacicco, Tamara. "The British Institute of Florence and the British Council in Fascist Italy: from Harold E. Goad to Ian G. Greenlees, 1922–1940." Modern Italy 23, no. 3 (June 27, 2018): 315–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2018.19.

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The first British cultural institute on foreign soil was founded in Florence in 1917. However, it was the creation of the British Council in London in 1935 that marked the beginning of the strengthening of the British cultural presence abroad. The aim of this drive was to promote knowledge of British culture and civic and political life overseas, to defend national prestige and, given the escalating expansionist policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, to encourage the preservation of dialogue between the major European powers, underpinned by democratic principles. Bridging a gap in research into the relationship between Italy and Great Britain in the interwar period, this article reconstructs the case study of British cultural diplomacy in Florence between 1922 and Mussolini’s declaration of war, analysing how British culture was used in politics and propaganda and investigating the relationship of the management of both the British Institute of Florence and the British Council with Fascism. In doing so, it offers original insight into British history and the country’s cultural institutions in Fascist Italy, and into the wider field of Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations during the period of dictatorship in Italy.

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Bresnahan, Carol M. "Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence. By Sharon T. Strocchia (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) 261 pp. $50.00." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41, no. 4 (March 2011): 647–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_00178.

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Toomaspoeg, Kristjan. "The nunneries of the Order of St. John in medieval Italy." Ordines Militares Colloquia Torunensia Historica 27 (December 30, 2022): 115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/om.2022.004.

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This paper’s focus is women as professed members of the Order of St John in Italy, as documented in cities such as Milan, Florence, Venice, Genova, Monteleone di Spoleto, Perugia, Penne and Sovereto. The adherence of women to the Order came under several institutional forms. Some women were laypeople, associated consorores who carried out the Order’s activities, sometimes working in its hospitals. Others lived in the houses of the Order of St John, where they could also take the vows, with consequent formation of “mixed” convents or monasteries. But in some cases, separate nunneries were created or assimilated from other communities. Some historians have seen a different evolution from the initial vocation of women, which consisted of field activities in support of the poor and the sick, and would later become a strictly cloistered life. This change can be observed by examining the biographies of the two Italian female Hospitaller saints, Ubaldesca and Toscana. Yet, local development varied, and the situation in an important city like Florence differed from nunneries in smaller localities like Sovereto or Penne. Finally, several interesting sources allow us a glimpse of the spirituality and norms in those women’s daily lives compared to male religiosity. The medieval Italian nunneries of St John never became an autonomous branch of the Order, but at the same time, they were not a rare or exceptional phenomenon.

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Mieli, Anna, and Margaret D’Ambrosio. "IRIS: Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence." Art Libraries Journal 30, no. 4 (2005): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200014218.

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Florence in Italy, a renowned centre for art and culture, has been called a ‘living museum’ of the Italian Renaissance. Today it is also the site of a co-operative international project bringing the world’s scholarly community access to the bibliographic patrimonies of a group of special art and humanities libraries. The IRIS consortium is a unique resource for art historians, but it is also of value and use for anyone interested in the many aspects of this rich artistic period.

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Gates, Barbara. "NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATION." Victorian Literature and Culture 33, no. 1 (March 2005): 314–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150305220867.

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INTEREST IN VICTORIAN natural history illustration has burgeoned in recent years. Along with handsome, informative shows at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (“Picturing Natural History”), at the American Philosophical Society (“Natural History in North America, 1730–1860”), and at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne (“Nature's Art Revealed”), the year 2003 saw an entire conference devoted to the subject in Florence, Italy. In 2004, the eastern United States was treated to two more fauna- and flora-inspired shows, both dealing specifically with nineteenth-century British science and illustration.

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Brasher, Sally Mayall. "Sharon T. Strocchia . Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . 2009 . Pp. xvi, 261. $50.00." American Historical Review 115, no. 4 (October 2010): 1249–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.115.4.1249.

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Berman, Constance H. "Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence. By Sharon T. Strocchia. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi, 261. $50.00.)." Historian 73, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 887–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6563.2011.00308_68.x.

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Caini, Saverio, Benedetta Bendinelli, Giovanna Masala, Calogero Saieva, Melania Assedi, Andrea Querci, Thomas Lundh, Soterios Kyrtopoulos, and Domenico Palli. "Determinants of Erythrocyte Lead Levels in 454 Adults in Florence, Italy." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 3 (February 1, 2019): 425. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030425.

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Background: Lead exposure, even at low levels, is associated with adverse health effects in humans. We investigated the determinants of individual lead levels in a general population-based sample of adults from Florence, Italy. Methods: Erythrocyte lead levels were measured (using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry) in 454 subjects enrolled in the Florence cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study in 1992–1998. Multiple linear regression models were used to study the association between demographics, education and working history, lifestyle, dietary habits, anthropometry, residential history, and (among women) menstrual and reproductive history and use of exogenous sex hormones, and erythrocyte lead levels. Results: Median lead levels were 86.1 μg/L (inter-quartile range 65.5–111.9 μg/L). Male gender, older age, cigarette smoking and number of pack-years, alcohol intake, and residing in urban areas were positively associated with higher erythrocyte lead levels, while performing professional/managerial or administrative work or being retired was inversely associated with lead levels. Among women, lead levels were higher for those already in menopause, and lower among those who ever used hormone replacement therapy. Conclusions: Avoidable risk factors contribute to the lead body burden among adults, which could therefore be lowered through targeted public health measures.

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Hills, Helen. "“Enamelled with the Blood of a Noble Lineage”: Tracing Noble Blood and Female Holiness in Early Modern Neapolitan Convents and Their Architecture." Church History 73, no. 1 (March 2004): 1–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000964070009781x.

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The stark antithesis between the secular and the religious has been effectively challenged by scholarship of early modern Italy, which has shown the degree to which these fields necessarily overlapped. Nevertheless, studies of early modern female devotion, especially within convents, often present women as caught between competing claims of kinship and clerical authority, a conflict between family and convent, an opposition between the secular and the divine. This paper argues that within Neapolitan conventual circles, at least, nuns' noble blood was regarded as enhancing the spiritual value of their convents, and that, on the whole, the way in which the Decrees of the Council of Trent were interpreted served to “aristocratize” convents. Something of a fusion occurred between nobility and spirituality in women. This paper relates this fusion to discourses on nobility and to the aristocratization of convent culture after enclosure at Trent, examining how it marked post-Tridentine Neapolitan convent architecture and urbanism. In short, I argue that nuns' nobility enhanced the spiritual value of Neapolitan convents after Trent, and that such status was communicated discursively, architecturally, and urbanistically.

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Shalit-Kollender, Michal. "The Fresco Cycle of Saint Maria Maddalena De’ Pazzi (1566–1607)." Religion and the Arts 25, no. 4 (September 29, 2021): 421–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02504002.

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Abstract Saint Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, a Florentine Carmelite nun and mystic, was recognized as a saint in 1669. After her canonization, a church in Florence was renovated and renamed Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, and new artworks were commissioned for it. This article will explore in detail a series of ten frescoes on the top section of the walls in the church, part of the renovation. Although these works are part of the saint’s public iconography and depict major narratives of her cult, they have not been studied in depth to date. Though the scenes have meaning to a general Catholic audience, they appeal to different audiences—the Carmelite nuns, the local Florentine population, and the post-Counter Reformation believer—to differing degrees, the scenes with Jesuit undertones aimed particular at the latter group.

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Lowe, K. J. P. "Female Strategies for Success in a Male-ordered World: the Benedictine Convent of Le Murate in Florence in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries." Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 209–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400012092.

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This paper will centre on the relationships of women to men and women to women which form the backbone of the history of the Benedictine convent of Le Murate in Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Le Murate started in a quiet way with one pious woman deciding to live virtuously by herself, but under no rule, in a house on the Ponte Rubaconte in 1390, and expanded to become perhaps the largest female convent in Florence in 1515, situated on Via Ghibellina, with 200 enclosed women and their servants living under the Rule of St Benedict. I want to examine the relations between these nuns and the outside world and look at how the male government of the outside world, secular and ecclesiastical, both at an individual level and in a more collective, formal way, tried to restrain and weaken this group of females, even to the point of forbidding them to earn their own livelihood. I would like to posit that religious life on a large scale and in a large city offered opportunities for the exercise of power by women not available to those of the female sex who stayed within the structure of the family and who were, therefore, in direct competition with men at every stage. Daughters, sisters, wives, and widows were legally and socially subject to their male relatives, in varying degrees. Nuns were not, and were permitted a measure of self-government. Just how irksome, worrying, and unacceptable to men it was for women to take their own decisions will become clear later. Barred by their sex from an active life in the hierarchy of the Church, and barred by their Order from an active life in the community, nevertheless in the Renaissance these enclosed Benedictine nuns devised strategies for obtaining access to power and money unparalleled by their secular counterparts. Le Murate exerted a strong attraction on women, both the powerful and famous and the more ordinary. Due to the increasing politicization of Florentine society, it secured, in addition, the patronage of the two most important Florentine political families during the period, the Medici and the Soderini. It was this seeming capacity to mobilize support from every sector of the population, regardless of sex, social group, income, political hue, or place of origin, which enabled the convent to prosper.

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Baker, Nicholas Scott. "For Reasons of State: Political Executions, Republicanism, and the Medici in Florence, 1480–1560." Renaissance Quarterly 62, no. 2 (2009): 444–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/599867.

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AbstractPrior to the late fifteenth century in Florence, the losers of political conflicts routinely faced exile as punishment for their perceived crimes. Following the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478, however, such political criminals increasingly received death sentences rather than banishment. This article explores how the changing nature of punishment for political crimes in Renaissance Florence from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries can be read as a barometer of political change in the city. It examines the relationship between the growing number of political executions and the long transformation of Florence from a republic to a principality, with reference to the broader context of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.

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Gavitt, Philip, and Carol Bresnahan Menning. "Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy: The Monte di Pieta of Florence." American Historical Review 100, no. 1 (February 1995): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2168069.

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Hamilton, Alastair. "The Pucci of Florence. Patronage and Politics in Renaissance Italy, by Carla D’Arista." Church History and Religious Culture 101, no. 4 (October 26, 2021): 590–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712428-10104004.

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Richet, Isabelle. "English-Language Periodicals and Reading Rooms in Nineteenth-Century Italy as Spaces of Intercultural Contact and Exchange." Cultural History 10, no. 2 (October 2021): 226–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cult.2021.0243.

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This paper discusses the symbiotic relationship that developed between English-language periodicals published in Italy and major reading rooms in Rome and Florence. This relationship took various configurations – from Luigi Piale in Rome, who opened a reading room and published the weekly The Roman Advertiser, to the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence that provided access to the many English-language periodicals published in Italy – and created important spaces of transnational cultural interaction. The paper looks at the cultural practices and the forms of sociability represented by the reading of periodicals and the patronizing of reading rooms as ‘imported traditions’ brought to Italy by the many British cultured travellers and residents in the nineteenth century. It identifies the actors who promoted these cultural practices (editors, librarians, cosmopolitan intellectuals) and analyses their role as mediating figures who created in-between spaces where cross-cultural exchanges unfolded. The paper also discusses the broader transnational cultural dynamic at work as those cultural practices imported from England favoured a greater engagement of British visitors and expatriates with the Italian political and cultural environment.

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Lippi, M. Mariotti, C. Bellini, M. Mori Secci, and T. Gonnelli. "Comparing seeds/fruits and pollen from a Middle Bronze Age pit in Florence (Italy)." Journal of Archaeological Science 36, no. 5 (May 2009): 1135–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.12.017.

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Olsson, Anders. "Sirpa Salenius' Florence, Italy: Images of the City in Nineteenth-Century American Writing." American Studies in Scandinavia 40, no. 1-2 (October 30, 2008): 177–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v40i1-2.4691.

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Hoeniger, Cathleen. "D’Arista, Carla. The Pucci of Florence: Patronage and Politics in Renaissance Italy." Renaissance and Reformation 44, no. 3 (January 24, 2022): 270–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v44i3.38017.

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Britnell, R. H. "England and Northern Italy in the Early Fourteenth Century: the Economic Contrasts." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 39 (December 1989): 167–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3678983.

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We know almost as much about the operations of big Italian companies in England as about those in Italy itself during the early fourteenth century. Tuscan trade here engaged some of Europe's most celebrated businesses, attracted by the kingdom's fine wool and the credit-worthiness of her crown and nobility. Historians have some-times drawn an analogy with international lending from richer to poorer countries in the modern world, both to create a point of contact with their readers and to meet the need for deep-lying explanations. The analogy usually carries the implication that Italy had a more advanced economy than England, and there are authors who say so explicitly. Some use terms designed to describe international economic growth during the last two hundred years, and represent medieval Italy as a pole of development, or a core economy. Others, borrowing the language of power, describe Italy as a dominant economy. Professor Cipolla uses a number of these ideas at once in his observation that ‘in the early years of the fourteenth century Florence represented a dominant and developed economy, while England and the kingdom of Naples were two decidedly underdeveloped countries: the periphery, to use Wallerstein's expression’.

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ROSENTHAL, DAVID. "‘Every sort of manual type, and mostly foreigners’: migrants, brothers and festive kings in early modern Florence." Urban History 37, no. 3 (November 15, 2010): 360–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926810000507.

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ABSTRACT:In 1522, the artisan festive ‘kingdom’ of the Biliemme put up the biggest street tabernacle in Florence. German textile workers were behind the tabernacle and this article argues that, at a time of crisis for German workers, these men looked to reassert their place in Florence through their participation in a citywide artisan festive subculture. Forty years later, Germans in the Biliemme district had largely been replaced by textile migrants from other parts of Italy. Nonetheless the kingdom remained a important vehicle for creating neighbourhood solidarities and for incorporating these new migrants into the artisan and civic world.

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Gill, B. J. "The Cheeseman–Giglioli correspondence, and museum exchanges between Auckland and Florence, 1877–1904." Archives of Natural History 37, no. 1 (April 2010): 131–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0260954109001697.

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Letters between Thomas Frederic Cheeseman of Auckland Museum (New Zealand) and Enrico Hillyer Giglioli of the Florence Natural History Museum (Italy) spanning 27 years (1877–1904), document repeated exchanges of natural history and ethnographic objects (consignments received at Florence in 1879, 1885, 1887, 1890, about 1895 and 1899, and at Auckland in 1882, 1888, 1891, 1896 and 1904). Extracts from the correspondence are used to give a chronological account of the transactions as a detailed case-study of a nineteenth century museum exchange between institutions half a world apart. Emphasis is given to land vertebrates, of which some 150 New Zealand birds were sent to Florence, and more than 600 Italian and foreign birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians were sent to Auckland. Giglioli especially sought Maori and Pacific ethnographic items and persistently requested these. He could offer royal acknowledgement of Cheeseman's efforts, and the latter received a Galileian silver medal of merit from the Florence Faculty of Sciences in 1887. The exchanges show what could be achieved over time by relatively few letters, despite the slow postal service, the need for agents, and the vagaries of freighting by sailing ship and steamer that included port strikes, unscheduled transhipment and the loss of ethnographic items by pillage en route.

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Bernabei, Mauro, Jarno Bontadi, and Gabriele Rossi Rognoni. "A dendrochronological investigation of stringed instruments from the collection of the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, Italy." Journal of Archaeological Science 37, no. 1 (January 2010): 192–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.031.

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Jurdjevic, M. "Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society, and Politics in Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy." English Historical Review CXXIV, no. 508 (May 22, 2009): 690–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep093.

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Mencarelli, Paolo. "The Tuscan Committee of National Liberation: new directions in research, archives and editions of sources." Modern Italy 18, no. 1 (February 2013): 75–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2012.753172.

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Historians agree that the liberation of Florence (11 August 1944) was a key moment in the war in Italy for political, rather than military, reasons. This was the case, above all, because the Allies found for the first time, in a city of great international importance, an administration that at both city and provincial level was an expression of the antifascist forces. The parties as well as the organisations had, it transpired, worked to create the foundations of popular self-government during the struggle against the Germans and the Fascists and, in particular, during the months immediately preceding the Liberation. It was in Florence itself that, confronted with such a demonstration of the maturity and organisation of the Resistance, the Allied forces were compelled to rethink their relationship with the various partisan and antifascist forces. The difference between Florence and Rome was such that the Allies had, at the very least, to acknowledge the institutional and social ambitions of the Resistance movement and the desire of the partisans to change the way the country would be run after the war. These aspirations were a key aspect of the Resistance in Florence and Tuscany and, as the Allies discovered, the partisans in the North shared these same hopes and ambitions.

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MASSETI, MARCO. "Sculptures of mammals in the Grotta degli Animali of the Villa Medici di Castello, Florence, Italy: a stone menagerie." Archives of Natural History 35, no. 1 (April 2008): 100–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0260954108000090.

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The Grotta degli Animali of the Villa Medici di Castello, Florence, Italy, houses a varied range of life-size mammals in polychrome marble, perhaps created by Cosimo Fancelli around 1555, on a model by Baccio Bandinelli. This paper describes and identifies the mammalian species portrayed, bearing in mind, however, the possible influence of an iconographic tradition, as well as the probable inspiration from mythological and legendary sources.

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Tintori, Guido. "An outsider's vision: Gaetano Salvemini and the 1948 elections in Italy." Modern Italy 16, no. 2 (May 2011): 139–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2011.557220.

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This article addresses a rather neglected aspect of Salvemini's prolific political output. Based on records collected in the Salvemini Archive at the Istituto Storico della Resistenza in Florence, this article examines Salvemini's perspective on the 1948 elections in Italy, through an analysis of his public writings and private correspondence. It considers the decisive impact that exile to the US and the academic environment of Harvard had on Salvemini's conception of democracy and politics, by making him an outsider in post-war Italy, a country polarised into the two competing ideological factions of the Communists and the Christian Democrats. Salvemini's fiercely independent spirit led him to criticise the Allies’ plans for post-war Italy and the American intervention in the 1948 elections under the auspices of the Cold War. Through an understanding of Salvemini's thought, this essay tries to offer a deeper analysis of the meaning of the 1948 elections as a watershed in the history of Italy.

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Lewin, Alison Williams. "“Cum Status Ecclesie Noster Sit”: Florence and the Council of Pisa (1409)." Church History 62, no. 2 (June 1993): 178–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3168142.

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Of all the divisions and crises that the Catholic church endured in its first fifteen hundred years of existence, none was so destructive as the Great Schism (1378–1417). For forty years learned theologians and doctors of canon law argued over whether the pontiff residing in Rome or in Avignon was the true pope. The effects of the schism upon the highly organized administration of the church were disastrous, as were its effects upon society in general. Countless clerics fought over claims to benefices with appointees from the other obedience; the revenues of the church, quite impressive in the mid-fourteenth century, shrank precipitously; and opportunistic rulers especially in Italy did not hesitate to wage private wars under the banner of one or the other papacy, or to prey upon the actual holdings of the church.

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Guarnieri, Patrizia. "Per una storia dell'affidamento dei malati psichiatrici alle famiglie: Towards a history of the family care of psychiatric patients." Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale 18, no. 1 (March 2009): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1121189x00001433.

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SummaryInserting adults with psychic problems into families has recently been practiced in various European countries and also in Italy, where some mental health departments support such families. Beyond the well known story of Gheel, the etero and omofamily care of psychiatric patients has a forgotten history. Methods – On the basis of unexplored and exceptionally rich sources from the archives of the asylums in Florence, as well as of the Province di Florence, which funded assistance to the mentally ill – this research focuses on the subsidized “domestic custody” of hundreds of psychiatric patients, who had already been institutionalized. Beginning in 1866, outboarding was supported by the provincial administration in Florence with the collaboration of the asylum medical direction. Results – In the late 19th C. and in the early 20th C. prestigious psychiatrists sought alternatives to the institutionalisation. These alternatives involved varied participants in a community (the patients and their families, the administrators and the medical specialists, the neighborhood and the police). The families played a special role that historians of the psychiatry exclusively dedicated to the insane asylums have not really seen. Conclusions – The role of the families in the interaction with the psychiatric staff is not, even on a historiographical level, simply an additional and marginal chapter of the practices and of the culture of the mental health. These archival evidence contradicts some common places on the past of the Italian psychiatry before 1978, and provokes new reflections of possible relevance to the present.

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Bernabei, Mauro, and Jarno Bontadi. "Determining the resonance wood provenance of stringed instruments from the Cherubini Conservatory Collection in Florence, Italy." Journal of Cultural Heritage 12, no. 2 (April 2011): 196–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2010.12.001.

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Scott, Karen. "St. Catherine of Siena, “Apostola”." Church History 61, no. 1 (March 1992): 34–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3168001.

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In the spring of 1376, Catherine, the uneducated daughter of a Sienese dyer, a simple lay Tertiary, traveled to Avignon in southern France. She wanted to speak directly with Pope Gregory XI about organizing a crusade, reforming the Catholic church, ending his war with Florence, and moving his court back to Rome. Her reputation for holiness and her orthodoxy gave her a hearing with the pope, and so her words had a measure of influence on him. Gregory did move to Rome in the fall of 1376, and he paid for her trip back to Italy. In 1377 he allowed her to lead a mission in the Sienese countryside: he wanted her presence there to help save souls and perhaps stimulate interest in a crusade. In 1378 he sent her to Florence as a peacemaker for the war between the Tuscan cities and the papacy. In late 1378 Gregory's successor Urban VI asked her to come to Rome to support his claim to the papacy against the schismatic Pope Clement VII. Finally in 1380, Catherine died in Rome, exhausted by all these endeavors.

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Nevola, Fabrizio. "Home Shopping." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 153–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2011.70.2.153.

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Fabrizio Nevola considers the form, function, and significance of shops and the other commercial spaces contained in the ground floors of the Renaissance palaces of Siena, Florence, and Rome. Home Shopping: Urbanism, Commerce, and Palace Design in Renaissance Italy also investigates the social interaction between the private environment of the home and the public space of the street. Contrary to much that has been written about the palaces of the fifteenth century, their designers did not abandon botteghe (shops), nor more broadly construed commercial functions. The resulting buildings are hybrid structures in which the proud individual façades of private patrons' palaces were configured to serve the needs of trade. Today, urban space is largely experienced as a succession of shop fronts, and commercial activities overwhelm all other functions. Early modern Italy was not much different.

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Ledermann, François. "Flückiger und Italien: Die Italienreisen des Schweizer Apothekers und Pharmakognosten Friedrich August Flückiger'." Gesnerus 59, no. 1-2 (December 3, 2002): 38–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22977953-0590102003.

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The Swiss pharmacist and professor of pharmacy, F. A. Flückiger, made eleven trips to Italy. His first journey took him to Naples but he also visited Rome, Venice, Florence, Sicily and the coast of the Liguria several times. His diary as well as his documented voyage reports allow us to reconstruct his routes, the places visited and the means of transportation used. They show the wide range of interests of Flückiger who observed nature, history and geography of the places visited.

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Andrews, Frances. "LIVING LIKE THE LAITY? THE NEGOTIATION OF RELIGIOUS STATUS IN THE CITIES OF LATE MEDIEVAL ITALY." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 20 (November 5, 2010): 27–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080440110000046.

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ABSTRACTFramed by consideration of images of treasurers on the books of the treasury in thirteenth-century Siena, this article uses evidence for the employment of men of religion in city offices in central and northern Italy to show how religious status (treated as a subset of ‘clerical culture’) could become an important object of negotiation between city and churchmen, a tool in the repertoire of power relations. It focuses on the employment of men of religion as urban treasurers and takes Florence in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries as a principal case study, but also touches on the other tasks assigned to men of religion and, very briefly, on evidence from other cities (Bologna, Brescia, Como, Milan, Padua, Perugia and Siena). It outlines some of the possible arguments deployed for this use of men of religion in order to demonstrate that religious status was, like gender, more contingent and fluid than the norm-based models often relied on as a shorthand by historians. Despite the powerful rhetoric of lay–clerical separation in this period, the engagement of men of religion in paid, term-bound urban offices inevitably brought them closer to living like the laity.

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Klyuev, Artem I. "‘I... Should Never Forget What You Did for Me.’ Letters of Famous Russian Emigre Historian Nikolai Ottokar to Italian Scholar Gaetano Salvemini." Herald of an archivist, no. 2 (2018): 591–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2018-2-591-603.

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This article is a publication of letters of Nikolai Petrovich Ottokar (1884-1957), Russian emigre historian, specialist in the history of the Florentine Republic, professor at the University of Florence, to his colleague and opponent Gaetano Salvemini (1873-1957), established authority in Italian historiography, fervent antifascist, and emigrant as well. The author feels that the historiography implies that there was a certain strain between two historians that stemmed in Ottokar's harsh criticism of Salvemini’s concept of the history of late Duecento era Florence, which he proposed in 1899. Also Ottokar succeeded Salvemini at the Department of Contemporary History after Salvemini was expelled by the fascists from the University of Florence. The scholarship cites Ottokar’s manifest ‘loyalty’ to the fascist regime in Italy, including his likely party membership. It recalls his cooperation in a number of scientific projects of the fascist era, for instance, the Enciclopedia italiana. The author feels that the texts published below allow to correct this outlook and also to add several significant details to the research field. First, as follows from the texts below, the relationship between two historians was clearly not strained, but rather friendly. Secondly, the published letters add a number of interesting details to the biography of the Russian scientist. It should be noted that the Italian scientist played an important role in Ottokar’s life in 1924-1925. Apparently, Salvemini helped Ottokar to settle in Florence, where he emigrated from Perm in 1921. Apparently, Ottokar began his work at the University of Florence at the instigation of the Italian scientist. This, by the way, can testify, albeit indirectly, of a rather longer acquaintance of two scientists, which could have begun in the early 1910s, during N.P. Ottokar’s international trip. Letters are published from autographs stored in the fond of Gaetano Salvemini in the Istituto storico Toscana della Resistenza in Italian and in Russian translation by the author accomplished with permission of the Comitato Salvemini.

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