[eBook] [PDF] For Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy Environmental Ideals and Urban Practice in Genoa and Venice 1st Edition

[eBook] [PDF] For Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy Environmental Ideals and Urban Practice in Genoa and Venice 1st Edition By Dr Jane Stevens Crawshaw

People and goods from across the globe filled the vibrant ports of Genoa and Venice during the Renaissance. This book takes us onto the streets, bridges, and waterways of these significant, sensuous cities to reveal the ambitious schemes undertaken to promote the cleanliness and health of their communities. Along the way, we encounter a broad and fascinating cross-section of Renaissance society — from courtesans to street food sellers and architects to canal diggers — and, using new archival sources, uncover both the ideals and lived experiences of health and environmental management.

During the Renaissance, vital connections were believed to exist between people’s natures and those of the places they inhabited. Problems in urban or environmental bodies could have social and moral, as well as physical, effects. Street cleaning or the dredging of canals, therefore, were often justified in societal and religious, as well as natural, terms. These associations shaped government measures to regulate everyday life in ports, alongside communal responses to natural disasters. They informed the management of the environment, including waste disposal, flood defences, dredging, and land reclamation, and endowed such activity with both physical and symbolic purpose.

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