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 Life in Italy during the Shakespearean Era



 A. Food eaten
 Italy during the Renaissance was one of innovation, economic thrust, and historic weaving. It was a complicated time of exotic food introductions (courtesy of New World explorers), political pressure (spice trade), socio ecomonomic stratification (the richer you were, the better you entertained/ate), scientific advancement (how best to reconcile classic food conceptions...The Humors, The Great Chain of Being...with new scientific discoveries?), and culinary mythology (Catherine De'Medici Transformed French Cookery).  Shakepearean also advised his readers to eat vegetables such as turnips, parsnips, carrots, onions, leeks, garlic and radishes, and fruit in the form of mellow red apples. 

Men's Clothing

 * Shirts, Jerkins, and Doublets** Shirts should be long sleeved and full bodied. Drawstrings, high collars, drop collars, and no collared shirts are appropriate. A jerkin is a loose fitting vest, generally sleeveless. A doublet is a tight fitting vest, sometimes with detachable sleeves.
 * Breeches** Pants should be full with lots of volume, not form fitting. Length can be thigh-high, above the knee, or below the knee. Ankle length pants are inappropriate. No zippers or pockets. Wear hose or woolen socks if your legs aren't covered. Only scotts and irish show bare legs!
 * Accessories** Make your character more visually interesting by adding some indication of what you do for a living. You should at least have a belt and a purse/pouch. Woe be unto thee shouldst the keg burst and thou be without cup.

Women's Clothing

 * Chemise/Shift** A chemise is essentially a nightshirt, cut much like a man's shirt at the top. Use a long shirt in a pinch. Never wear your shift off the shoulders. (Unless you're a doxy.)
 * Bodice** A bodice is a fitted vest-like garment (which later evolved into the corset). For the home-seamstress this will be the most challenging item.
 * Skirts** Skirts must be full and worn just below the ankle. Wear two skirts and tuck up the overskirt for the proper silhouette. Skirts should be monochrome: no prints, ruffles, tiers, parti-color.

Children's Clothing
Until about age three children wore a biggin's hat and a shift. Children older than three dressed just like adults. 

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">C. Employment
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">There are also many employments at that time like painting, businesss,and art. At Shakespearean Era, it is a great time for the artist. There are many good artists appear at that time. At that time, Italy is still very, very divided when it comes to social classes, and this increased the gap between the rich and the non-rich.it is unfair. Also, the rich ones were able to expand their earning capacities with the boom of trading. This time, the trade has begun to explode into an inter-continental scale. Although this provided employment to the poor people, the rich still had most of the benefits. In later part, because of the opportunities opened up by the trades and the exploration, some of the people who aren't rich were given an opportunity to have better lives through skilled work and trade which later gave birth to the rise of the middle-class. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> ====<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">D. Leisure activities  ====

There are many leisure activities in Italy at that time. At that time, people divided into poor people and rich people two groups. They have their own daily activities like painting, eating afternoon tea, and so on. Watching musical is a big part of the Italian life. They like watching musical very much. Painting is also a very important for them. At that time, Italy is in the beginning of the. There are many great artist appeared at that time. So they like painting. Every afternoon, people will meet together to have a great afternoon tea. They will drink coffe, and eat some snacks.

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">1. Type of government
The history of Italy is largely the history of Rome. From 800 on, the Holy Roman Emperors, Roman Catholic popes, Normans, and Saracens all vied for control over various segments of the Italian peninsula. Numerous city-states, such as Venice and Genoa, whose political and commercial rivalries were intense, and many small principalities flourished in the late middle Ages. Although Italy remained politically fragmented for centuries, it became the cultural center of the Western world from the 13th to the 16th century.

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">2. Influence of military and church
<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">This modern, Albanian phase of the Byzantine tradition in southern Italy began when the Ottoman Turks moved through the Balkans in the 14th and 15th centuries and wiped out the Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbian states. The Albanian resistance collapsed after the death of George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, the chief of the Albanian unsurgency. Rather than serve the Ottoman sultan, thousands of Albanian refugees poured into such diverse Italian regions as Abruzzi and Molise, Basilicata, Calabria, Puglia and Sicily. Those Albanians from the northern portion of the country - primarily Latin Catholics - were quickly absorbed into Italian culture. Southern Albanians were Byzantine Christians who maintained ties to the Church of Constantinople, which was reduced to a subordinate condition following the collapse of Constantinople in 1453.

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> 3. Role of prince: The Black Prince, Junio Valerio Borghese
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The career of the Roman "Black Prince," Junio Valerio Borghese, shockingly illustrates how virtually all modern "international terrorism" and all assassinations of heads of state and government such as President John F. Kennedy, former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, or the various attempts on France's President Charles de Gaulle, derive from the postwar Nazi International, sponsored by the Anglo-American-led Synarchy and its cleverness services. To trace all the ramifications of that career, is to open a door onto the centuries-old highest level of the financial oligarchy—the Synarchy: the aristocratic families of the "black nobility," the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta, and the heirs of what Pope John Paul I called the "ancients" of Venice.

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