Social Life in Renaissance Florence - HTAV
Social Life in Renaissance Florence - HTAV
Social Life in Renaissance Florence - HTAV
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Importance of friendship ties<br />
Political and economic network<strong>in</strong>g advantages<br />
Paolo da Certaldo “ a man who loses his friends is worse than<br />
dead.”<br />
Alberti “ Fortunate and affluent men are <strong>in</strong>deed extremely<br />
useful friends, not so much because they will help you with<br />
their wealth and power directly, but because… they can show<br />
you the way to acqua<strong>in</strong>tance with all lesser and ord<strong>in</strong>ary<br />
persons.”<br />
Could be cross class- eg Bartolomeo Cederni and the<br />
Pandolf<strong>in</strong>i family<br />
Brucker argument
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