Francesco Barbaro: The Wealth of Wives: A Fifteenth-Century Marriage Manual, Volume 485 by

Francesco Barbaro: The Wealth of Wives: A Fifteenth-Century Marriage Manual, Volume 485

Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies

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In 1415, Francesco Barbaro produced a marriage manual intended at once for his friend, a scion of the Florentine Medici family, and for the whole set of his peers, the young nobility of Venice. Countering the trends of the day toward dowry chasing...

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