I TATTI STUDIES IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE HISTORY
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Cultures of Charity

Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

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ISBN 9780674067097

Publication: February 2013

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400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

3 halftones, 13 line illustrations, 4 tables

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    • List of Figures and Tables*
    • Introduction
    • 1. Showing the Poor a Good Time: Gender, Class, and Charitable Cultures
      • Two Cultures of Charity
      • “Good Mothers of the Family”
    • 2. Worthy Poor, Worthy Rich: Women’s Poverty and Charitable Institutions
      • The Turning Wheel: Charitable Institutions and Life Cycle Poverty
      • The Critical Decade
      • Nights and Days at the Opera
    • 3. Tightening Control: The Narrowing Politics of Charity
      • Making It Work
      • People versus Patricians: Civil Society and Controlling Charity
    • 4. Meeting the Bottom Line: Alms, Taxes, Work, and Legacies
      • Begging for Beggars: Keeping the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti Afloat
      • Taxation by Other Means
      • Making a Workhouse
      • Deeper in Debt and Richer all the Time: Building a Legacy
    • 5. The Wheel Keeps Turning: Moving Beyond the Opera
      • Enclosing the Circle: Shelters and the Reform of Poor Women
      • Credit Where Credit Was Due: Investing in Marriage
      • Beyond Charity: Mutual Assistance and the Working Poor
    • 6. Epilogue: Baroque Piety and the Qualità of Mercy
      • Bringing Discipline to Practical Charity
      • The Aesthetics of Poverty and the Qualità of Mercy
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Acknowledgments
    • Index
    • * Figures and Tables:
      • Figures
        • 1. The First Shelter of the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti: the Ospedale di S. Maria della Misericordia (later S. Gregorio)
        • 2. The Three Shelters of the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti (1674)
        • 3. Income and Expense at the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti, 1570–1600
        • 4. Food Expenses at the Opera Pia dei Poveri Mendicanti, 1570–1600
        • 5. Traditional Alms Gathering by the OPM, 1570–1600
        • 6. Public Subsidies for the OPM, 1570–1600—Total
        • 7. Public Subsidies for the OPM, 1570–1600—by Source
        • 8. Income from Textile Piecework at the OPM, 1570–1600
        • 9. Forms of Silk Piecework at the OPM, 1570–1600
        • 10. Income Earned by Males in the OPM, 1570–1600
        • 11. Work-Related Earnings at OPM, 1570–1600
        • 12. Work-Related Earnings as Percentage of Total Income at OPM, 1570–1600
        • 13. Surpluses and Deficits at the OPM, 1570–1600
        • 14. Testaments, Requiems, and Legacy Income at the OPM, 1570–1600
        • 15. Women “Imprisoned” in the Convertite Convent, 1649–1679
        • 16. G. B. Mitelli, “Compagnia di molti miserabili ragazzi che s’impiegano unitamente in publiche preghiere, confidando nel divino soccorso, mediante la carità de divoti concittadini” (1699)
      • Tables
        • 1. Alms from Religious Houses to the OPM, 1564, 1584–1597
        • 2. Girls’ Earnings at Two Bolognese Conservatories
        • 3. Wetnursing and Living Expenses at the Ospedale degli Esposti 1567–1593
        • 4. Senate Subsidies to OPM 1600–1732