The Wealth of Wives: A Fifteenth-Century Marriage Manual Volume 42

by Francesco Barbaro

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 and dowry inflation, Barbaro insisted that the real wealth of wives was their capacity to conceive, birth, and rear children worthy of their heritage. The success of the patriciate depended, ironically,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0866985409
• ISBN13: 9780866985406
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"