The culture of cleanliness in Renaissance Italy /

Concerned about sanitation during a severe bout of plague in Milan, Leonardo da Vinci designed an ideal, clean city. Leonardo was far from alone among his contemporaries in thinking about personal and public hygiene, as Douglas Biow shows in The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. A concern...

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Main Author: Biow, Douglas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Latin
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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