Communities of Mourning and Consolation in Florence

FAIN: FB-12776-76

James R. Banker
North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC 27695-0001)

To investigate the social bonds caused by the common experience of grief among the merchant-citizens and humanists in fourteenth and fifteenth century Florence. Grief accompanying death had a profound role in associating groups of Florentines into mutually consoling communities. Sources to be examined include family diaries, funeral orations, dialogues, and epistles of consolation.