"Focusing on the luxury trade in fashionable wear and accessories in Venice, Florence, and other towns in Italy, Gilding the Market investigates a major shift in patterns of consumption at the height of medieval prosperity, which, more remarkably, continued through the subsequen…
"The early twentieth century in Italy was a crucial period in its history. This book surveys all the important issues and topics of the period including the origins and rise of Fascism, Mussolini as Prime Minister and dictator, the totalitarian state, foreign policy and the Seco…