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How to Do It : Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
How to Do It Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians
Author: Rudolph M. Bell
How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226042008
ISBN-10: 0226042006
Publication Date: 10/1/2000
Pages: 389
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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