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Through the use of account books, inventories, wills, and other records, Renata Ago examines early modern attitudes toward possessions, asking what people did with their things, why they wrote about them, and how they passed objects on to their heirs. An investigation into the relationship between people and the things they buy, Gusto for Things paints a portrait of the(...)
Gusto for things : a history of objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome
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Through the use of account books, inventories, wills, and other records, Renata Ago examines early modern attitudes toward possessions, asking what people did with their things, why they wrote about them, and how they passed objects on to their heirs. An investigation into the relationship between people and the things they buy, Gusto for Things paints a portrait of the meaning of objects in preindustrial Europe.