List of figures * List of tables * List of contributors * Notes on currencies and measurements * Abbreviations * Preface and acknowledgements * Introduction * Consuming problems: Worldly goods in Renaissance Venice – Patricia Allerston * Republican anxiety and courtly confidence: The politics of magnificence and fifteenth-century Italian architecture – Rupert Shepherd * Making money: Pricing and payments in Renaissance Italy – Evelyn Welch * The social world of price formation: Prices and consumption in sixteenth-century Ferrara – Guido Guerzoni * Perugino and the contingency of value – Michelle O’Malley * States and crafts: Relocating technical skills in Renaissance Italy – Luca Mola * Diversity and design in the Florentine tailoring trade, 1550-1620 – Elizabeth Currie * Art and the table in sixteenth-century Mantua: Feeding the demand for innovative design –Valerie Taylor * The illuminated manuscript as a commodity: Production, consumption and the cartolaio’s role in fifteenth-century Italy – Anna Melograni * Credit and credibility: used goods and social relations in sixteenth-century Florence – Ann Matchette * The innkeeper’s goods: The use and acquisition of household property in sixteenth-century Siena – Paola Hohti * Coins, cloaks and candlesticks: The economics of extravagance – Mary Hollingsworth * Index
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