3 Florence’s ‘Black’ Babies: Renaissance Florence Meets Sub- Saharan Africa: Mixed-Ancestry Children at the Ospedale degli Innocenti

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. Abbreviations xxi
7. 1 Provenance and Its Discontents: Evidence, Relevance, Language, Knowledge 1
8. 2 The World beyond Italy: Keeping Up- to- date with Portuguese Overseas Expansion: Tracking and Assimilating the New Global Realities in Fifteenth-and Sixteenth- Century Italy 36
9. 3 Florence’s ‘Black’ Babies: Renaissance Florence Meets Sub- Saharan Africa: Mixed-Ancestry Children at the Ospedale degli Innocenti 82
10. 4 Inanimate Global Goods: Buying for the Medici Collection on the Iberian Peninsula in the 1540s 123
11. 5 Living Global Goods: The Acquisition of Living Goods for the Medici from the Portuguese Trading Empire: Provenance and Possession of Flesh and Blood 172
12. 6 Global Sensibilities: Possessing Consciousness of the Global World in Renaissance Italy: A Papal Official’s Experience in 1590s Lisbon 229
13. Parting Thoughts: Knowledge, Ignorance and Non-knowledge 290
14. Bibliography 293
15. Name Index 333
16. Subject Index 341
17. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 347