Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Copyright Page / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Abbreviations and Conventions / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Illustrations / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Acknowledgements / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Introduction / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Part 1 The Market of Orsanmichele and Its Context -- Chapter 1 Background / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Chapter 2 The Florentine Grain Market at Orsanmichele / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Chapter 3 Market Agents and Regulation / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Chapter 4 Market Character: Lenzi’s Orsanmichele, and the Mercato Vecchio in Context / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Chapter 5 Supplying the Market at Orsanmichele / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Part 2 The Madonna and Confraternity of Orsanmichele -- Chapter 6 The Loggias and Madonna of Orsanmichele / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Chapter 7 The Madonna and Her Confraternity / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Part 3 A Florentine Dearth at Orsanmichele -- Chapter 8 A Year of Dearth, 1329–1330 / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Chapter 9 Famine as Opposed to Dearth, Stress Points, and the Market Preserved / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Part 4 The End of the Grain Market at Orsanmichele and Conclusion -- Chapter 10 A Parting of Ways: The Confraternity Renounces Its Life-Giving Market / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Conclusion Vibrant Centuries before the Renaissance Loggia / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Back Matter -- Appendix 1 Selected Private Account Wheat and Grain Transactions Indicating the Price per Staio outside of the Market / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Appendix 2 Selected Florentine Grain Exports from the Southern Peninsula and Sicily, 1276–1329 / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Appendix 3 Selected Grain Qualities at Orsanmichele / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Appendix 4 Wheat and Grain Sales at the Market of Orsanmichele, 1329–1330 / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Appendix 5 Confraternity of Orsanmichele Officials, Communal Leadership, Traders / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Appendix 6 Dearths and Other Events, Twelfth to Early Fourteenth Centuries / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Appendix 7 Wheat and Grain Prices (Charts) / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Appendix 8 Selections from Domenico Lenzi’s Account, Spring 1329 / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Appendix 9 Markets, Exchanges, and Orsanmichele’s Grain Market: Modern Market Traits and Basic Bibliography / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Bibliography / Marie D’Aguanno Ito -- Index / Marie D’Aguanno Ito.

This work provides a new narrative for Orsanmichele in the era before the Renaissance. It examines Orsanmichele from the mid-thirteenth century, as the piazza transformed into the city’s grain market. It considers the market’s tandem confraternity, with its stunning Madonnas over three successive loggias. It examines the grain market and confraternity from a social, economic, political, and artistic perspective. It provides extensive data on the Florentine grain trade, sales at the market, and the nexus between traders, political leaders, and the confraternity. The work suggests that developments at Orsanmichele during the medieval period formed the basis for the Renaissance structure.

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