Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy
Environmental Ideals and Urban Practice in Genoa and Venice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 July 2023
- ISBN 9780198867432
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 240x163x15 mm
- Weight 460 g
- Language English 480
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Short description:
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 reputations, and social identities.
MoreLong description:
People and goods from across the globe filled the vibrant ports of Genoa and Venice during the Renaissance. This book takes us onto the streets, bridges, and waterways of these significant, sensuous cities to reveal the ambitious schemes undertaken to promote the cleanliness and health of their communities. Along the way, we encounter a broad and fascinating cross-section of Renaissance society -- from courtesans to street food sellers and architects to canal diggers -- and, using new archival sources, uncover both the ideals and lived experiences of health and environmental management.
During the Renaissance, vital connections were believed to exist between people's natures and those of the places they inhabited. Problems in urban or environmental bodies could have social and moral, as well as physical, effects. Street cleaning or the dredging of canals, therefore, were often justified in societal and religious, as well as natural, terms. These associations shaped government measures to regulate everyday life in ports, alongside communal responses to natural disasters. They informed the management of the environment, including waste disposal, flood defences, dredging, and land reclamation, and endowed such activity with both physical and symbolic purpose.
This is not simply a story of elite, official initiatives. Members of communities used public health structures to resolve the challenges of urban life -- social and physical. Occupational groups such as fishermen acted as environmental experts through the organisation of their guilds and provided reports on specific projects and proposals to government magistracies. Finally, the governments of both ports operated important systems of petitions and privileges, which encouraged innovation and the development of new technology by citizens and foreigners to address the central, environmental challenges of the day. Renaissance public health, then, emerges as a collaborate enterprise, as well as a site of tension within cosmopolitan neighbourhoods, and its study unveils more about forms of governance and community in this period.
An illuminating and original account of social policies, urban design, and environmental management between 1400 and 1600, Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy provides a new, multi-disciplinary history of Renaissance Italy.
Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy is a significant and welcome contribution that challenges longstanding narratives of premodern urban neglect and reconstructs proactive urban efforts to manage cleanliness and health. The book's wide range of fascinating topics and integration of diverse historiographies make it a valuable resource for scholars of Renaissance cities and environmental history.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Constructing ideals and practices in Renaissance port cities
Part One: The ebbs and flows of daily life
Channelling health: the flow of the streets
Preserving purity: the symbolic and practical regulation of water
Stemming the tide: innovation and purgation
Part Two: Balance and blame
Working with waste: space, reuse, and the urban body
Dealing with disasters: environments, people, and piety
Conclusion
Corruptible cities
