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One of the most notable things about this volume is that the authors have conceived of daily life in a broader way than usual. Daily life here is not simply the material culture of the period, but rather a rich landscape of complexity and difference that interrelates in suggestive ways the material and the spiritual, the individual and the group, the high and the low. Agency, danger, fear, negotiation, friendship, love, self-fashioning and role playing, spiritual aspirations and conflicting moral codes all interrelate with pots, pans, houses, food, clothing, disease, life cycles, time and space, as well as the classic issues of class, gender and power, both governmental and informal--a complex tapestry, and a fascinating one, that the Cohens do a fine job of making clear and multifaceted at the same time.

Clearly written as a textbook for undergraduates in renaissance survey classes, this volume fits that niche well and also offers a suggestive overview of the current state of scholarship on everyday life in renaissance Italy. Although the authors define the renaissance as a period stretching from the mid-14th to the mid to late 16th century, they focus on the period 1400 to 1600 with a decided lean towards the 16th century. And although they rightly point out that the urban orientation of renaissance society and culture masks the fact that most people still lived and worked in a rural setting, and make regular excursions into the countryside to describe daily life there, the nature and extent of the available scholarship means that by far the greater part of their discussion is concerned with life in the major urban centers of Rome, Florence and Venice. In fact, one of the pluses of the book is the attention given to the often less considered city of Rome, a reflection of the authors'' impressive archival rese arch and publication on that city.

These towns are ancient, many having been established within the walls of fortresses built to guard against marauders and, more importantly, as defense against the power of the nearby Florentines. Alas, the struggle for independence was lost in the 16th century when the fortress at Montalcino fell to the Medici family, who claimed the province of Siena as part of its own.Castelnuovo dell'' AbateMy wife, Fran, and I were fortunate, indeed, to come upon a little town near Castiglione d''Orcia called Castelnuovo dell'' Abate. In the distance, across fields of blood-red poppies, with vineyards, olive groves and grazing sheep filling the landscape, we could see our hotel, Castello di Velona. Located high on a hill, this 10th-century castle surveys the surrounding valleys and offers views of Mt. Amiata.

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