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Petrarch's War - Florence and the Black Death in Context (Paperback)
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Petrarch's War - Florence and the Black Death in Context (Paperback)
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This revisionist account of the economic, literary and social
history of Florence in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death
connects warfare with the plague narrative. Organised around
Petrarch's 'war' against the Ubaldini clan of 1349-1350, which
formed the prelude to his meeting and friendship with Boccaccio,
William Caferro's work examines the institutional and economic
effects of the war, alongside literary and historical patterns.
Caferro pays close attention to the meaning of wages in context,
including those of soldiers, thereby revising our understanding of
wage data in the distant past and highlighting the consequences of
a constricted workforce that resulted in the use of cooks and
servants on important embassies. Drawing on rigorous archival
research, this book will stimulate discussion among academics and
offers a new contribution to our understanding of Renaissance
Florence. It stresses the importance of short-termism and
contradiction as subjects of historical inquiry.
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