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Cleaning up Renaissance Italy : environmental ideals and urban practice in Genoa and Venice / Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw.

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'Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy' takes us to the streets, bridges, and waterways of Renaissance Genoa and Venice, exploring how environmental management - street cleaning, water provision, waste disposal, and reuse - relates to cultural ideals, individual and collective behaviour, political...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Crawshaw, Jane L. Stevens (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Environmental management > Italy > Genoa > History.
Environmental management > Italy > Venice > History.
Urbanization > Italy > Genoa > History.
Urbanization > Italy > Venice > History.
Genoa (Italy) > History > 1339-1528.
Genoa (Italy) > History > 1528-1789.
Venice (Italy) > History > 697-1508.
Venice (Italy) > History > 1508-1797.
Environmental management.
Urbanization.
Italy > Genoa.
Italy > Venice.
697-1797
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy: Environmental Ideals and Urban Practice in Genoa and Venice
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Epigraph
  • Introduction
  • Balance, Flow, and Cleanliness in the Premodern European City
  • The State of Genoa and Venice
  • Chapter Structure
  • 1: Constructing Ideals and Practices in Renaissance Port Cities
  • Imagining Renaissance Ports
  • Port Societies
  • Port Spaces and Society in Genoa and Venice
  • PART ONE: THE EBBS AND FLOWS OF DAILY LIFE
  • 2: Channelling Health: The Flow of the Streets
  • The Quality of the Streets
  • The Surface of the Streets
  • Selling on the Streets
  • The Seasons of the Streets
  • 3: Preserving Purity: The Symbolic and Practical Regulation of Water
  • Overflows: The Infrastructure of Water Supply
  • Worries about Washing
  • Down the Drain
  • 4: Stemming the Tide: Innovation and Purgation
  • Salvage and Shipwrecks
  • Petitions and Patents
  • Dredging
  • Repair and Reclamation
  • Regulating Rivers
  • PART TWO: BODIES: CONCEPTS OF BALANCE AND BLAME
  • 5: Working with Waste: Space, Reuse, and the Urban Body
  • Identifying Waste
  • Placing Waste
  • Handling Waste
  • 6: Dealing with Disasters: Environments, People, and Piety
  • Stories of Natural Disasters
  • Plagues
  • Storms and Floods
  • Conclusion: Corruptible Cities
  • Bibliography
  • Archival Sources
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Index

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