Cultures of charity : women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy / Nicholas Terpstra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terpstra, Nicholas.

Series:

I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charities--Italy--Bologna--History.

Charities.

Poor--Italy--Bologna--History.

Poor.

Women.

History.

Bologna (Italy)--Social conditions.

Bologna (Italy).

Women--Italy--Bologna--History.

Italy--Bologna.

Physical Description:

x, 379 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Contents:

1 Showing the Poor a Good Time: Gender, Class, and Charitable Cultures 19

Two Cultures of Charity 21

"Good Mothers of the Family" 42

2 Worthy Poor, Worthy Rich: Women's Poverty and Charitable Institutions 55

The Turning Wheel: Charitable Institutions and Life Cycle Poverty 62

The Critical Decade 78

Nights and Days at the Opera 85

3 Tightening Control: The Narrowing Politics of Charity 99

Making It Work 104

People versus Patricians: Civil Society and Controlling Charity 119

4 Meeting the Bottom Line: Alms, Taxes, Work, and Legacies 138

Begging for Beggars: Keeping the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti Afloat 142

Taxation by Other Means 153

Making a Workhouse 166

Deeper in Debt and Richer all the Time: Building a Legacy 183

5 The Wheel Keeps Turning: Moving Beyond the Opera 195

Enclosing the Circle: Shelters and the Reform of Poor Women 199

Credit Where Credit Was Due: Investing in Marriage 217

Beyond Charity: Mutual Assistance and the Working Poor 233

6 Baroque Piety and the Qualità of Mercy 245

Bringing Discipline to Practical Charity 250

The Aesthetics of Poverty and the Qualità of Mercy 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674067097

0674067096

OCLC:

792887419