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Informationen zum Autor William Caferro is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History and Professor of Classics and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, Villa I Tatti in Florence and the Italian Academy at Columbia University and, in 2010, he received a Simon R. Guggenheim fellowship. He has written widely on medieval and Renaissance Italy, including Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena (1998), The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family (2001), John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy (2006), which won the Otto Gründler Award from the International Medieval Congress, and Contesting the Renaissance (2010). Klappentext A compelling and revisionist account of Florence's economic, literary and social history in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death. Zusammenfassung A compelling and revisionist account of the economic, literary and social history of Florence in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death. Organised around Petrarch's 'war' against the Ubaldini of 1349–1350, by connecting warfare with the plague narrative, William Caferro offers an important contribution to the history of Renaissance Florence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: plague in context: Florence 1349-50; 1. Petrarch's war; 2. The practice of war and the Florentine army; 3. Economy of war at a time of plague; 4. Plague, soldiers' wages, and the Florentine public workforce; 5. The bell ringer travels to Avignon, the cook goes to Hungary: towards an understanding of the Florentine labor force, 1349-50; Epilogue: why two years matter (and the short-term is not inconsistent with the long-term).
