LEADER 04045nam 2200697 450 001 9910787709903321 005 20230126212233.0 010 $a0-674-36910-6 010 $a0-674-36909-2 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674369092 035 $a(CKB)2670000000543815 035 $a(EBL)3301395 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134324 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11666191 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134324 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11162996 035 $a(PQKB)11233857 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301395 035 $a(DE-B1597)427919 035 $a(OCoLC)871257828 035 $a(OCoLC)979743136 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674369092 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301395 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10841959 035 $a(dli)HEB32243 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000038 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000543815 100 $a20140314h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA mattress maker's daughter $ethe Renaissance romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza /$fBrendan Dooley 205 $a19 halftones 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (480 p.) 225 0 $aI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ;$v12 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-72466-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tPREFACE --$tPROLOGUE --$t1. THE FAMILY BUSINESS --$t2. THE MATTRESS MAKER'S DAUGHTER --$t3. THE HEART OF COMBAT --$t4. WRITING THE PASSIONS --$t5. A PLACE FOR THINGS --$t6. MIND OVER MATTER --$t7. DURABLE GOODS --$t8. TIME AND MEMORY --$tPOSTSCRIPT --$tNOTES --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINDEX 330 $aA Mattress Maker's Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged warrior-prince into marrying her, and the family takes revenge. He is Don Giovanni de' Medici, son of the Florentine grand duke; she is Livia Vernazza, daughter of a Genoese artisan. They live in luxury for a while, far from Florence, and have a child. Then, Giovanni dies, the family pounces upon the inheritance, and Livia is forced to return from riches to rags. Documents, including long-lost love letters, reveal another story behind the legend, suppressed by the family and forgotten. Brendan Dooley investigates this largely untold story among the various settings where episodes occurred, including Florence, Genoa, and Venice. In the course of explaining their improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter explores early modern emotions, material culture, heredity, absolutism, and religious tensions at the crux of one of the great transformations in European culture, society, and statecraft. Giovanni and Livia exemplify changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gave way to the culture of Counter-Reformation and early modern Europe. 410 0$aI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history. 410 0$aVilla I Tatti. 517 3 $aRenaissance romance of Don Giovanni de' Medici and Livia Vernazza 606 $aPrinces$zItaly$vBiography 606 $aSoldiers$zItaly$vBiography 607 $aItaly$xSocial life and customs$y16th century 615 0$aPrinces 615 0$aSoldiers 676 $a945/.07092 700 $aDooley$b Brendan Maurice$f1953-$0845933 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787709903321 996 $aA mattress maker's daughter$91888856 997 $aUNINA