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Society and Religion in Renaissance Florence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

John Henderson
John Henderson
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Cambridge Group for the History of Population
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The Historical Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 213 - 225
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18 Trexler, , Public life, pp. 18Google Scholar and 256. But see Rubinstein's reservations about this theory in his review cited in n. 11.

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24 Henderson, J. S., ‘Piety and charity in late-medieval Florence: religious confraternities from the middle of the thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century’, University of London Ph.D. thesis, 1983, p. 26Google Scholar, table I.I and appendix I.

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30 See, for example, the 1324 statutes of the Compagnia di S. Frediano detta la Brucciata in: BNF Palatino 154, fo. IV; the records of the Compagnia di S. Barbara in SS Annunziata: Archivio di Stato di Firenze(cited as ASF), Compagnie Religiose Soppresse (cited as CRS) BI. 204·4, fos. 311–v; for the entry in the records of the Compagnia di S. Zanobi see CRS 2170.1, fos. 15v–16v. See also the compagnia di S. Maria della Neve in S. Ambrogio, Capitoli CRS 606, fo. 12r.

31 Many of the poor to receive alms from the Buonomini di S. Martino fell into this age bracket: Spicciani, A., ‘The ‘poveri vergognosi’ in fifteenth-century Florence: the first 30 years' activity of the Buonomini di S. Martino’, Aspects of poverty in early modern Europe, ed. Riis, T. (Stuttgart, 1981), pp. 144–53Google Scholar.

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49 Giovanni Rucellai, pp. 57–8: ‘una cappella con uno sipolcro simile a quello di geRusalem del nostro Signore’.

50 Giovanni Rucellai, p. 73: ‘Piú servidori e amici della chasa’.

51 Henderson, ‘Piety and charity’, chapter 8.

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