Florence ducal capital, 1530-1630

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright and Permissions
• List of Illustrations
• List of Maps, Tables, and Charts
• Abbreviations and Notes
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Florence as Capital
  • Background under the Republic
  • The Ideal City
  • Florence and its Territory
  • Methodological Discursus
  • Underlying Spatial Patterns
• Chapter 2 Ducal Initiatives
  • Cosimo I de' Medici
  • Ducal Palaces
  • Ducal Processions
  • The Ducal Court
    • Formation of the court
    • Courtiers' residences
    • New palaces of courtiers
    • Court service personnel
  • Montaigne on Ducal Tuscany
• Chapter 3 The Church
  • Church and State after Trent
  • The Ghetto
  • Parish Churches and the Secular Clergy
  • Monasteries of Monks and Friars
  • Convents of Nuns
  • Hospitals
  • Church Processions
  • Confraternities
• Chapter 4 Patrician Responses
  • Transition to the Duchy
  • Identifying the Patriciate
  • Patrician Residential Mobility
    • The changing relationship to Gonfaloni
    • The new fashionable neighborhoods
    • Aspects of patrician mobility
    • Family experiences
    • Patrician widows
    • Family chapels
    • Patrician palaces
    • The Via Tornabuoni strip
• Chapter 5 Shops and Shopkeepers
  • The Economic Downturn
  • The Morphology of Shopkeeping in 1561
    • The central market area
    • The textile industry
    • The clothing trades
    • Other industries
    • Building
    • Dealing
  • The Identity of Shopkeepers
  • The Ducal Court and the Economic Downturn
  • The Spectrum of Shops in 1642
• Chapter 6 Artisans and Workers
  • Population Growth and Inflation
  • Identifying the Working Poor
    • Methodological issues
    • People without surnames
    • Migrants
    • Nonpatrician widows
  • Groups of Industrial Workers
    • Shoemakers and tailors
    • Textile workers
  • The Service Sector
    • Servants
    • Ducal functionaries at different levels
    • Marginal workers
  • Debtors and Creditors, Renters and Owners
    • Renters and owners
    • Housing examples of particular groups
    • The movement of rents and house prices
  • Festivities and Popular Pastimes
    • Festivities at different levels
    • The Potenze
  • The 1620s Crisis and the Spedale dei Mendicanti
• Chapter 7 The Plague of 1630-33
  • The Onset
  • Plague Mortality
  • The Geography of Infection
  • The Quarantine
  • The Madonna of Impruneta
  • Galileo at Court
  • Aftermath of the Plague
• Conclusion
• Notes
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Florence as Capital
  • Chapter 2. Ducal Initiatives
  • Chapter 3. The Church
  • Chapter 4. Patrician Responses
  • Chapter 5. Shops and Shopkeepers
  • Chapter 6. Artisans and Workers
  • Chapter 7. The Plague of 1630-33
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author