Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Preface xi
5. Chapter 1. Humanist and Theological Backgrounds 1
6. Chapter 2. Professions at Play: Jokes, Carnevale Songs, and Parlour Games 27
7. Chapter 3. Shuffling the Deck: Tomaso Garzoni's Universal Piazza of All the Professions of the World 70
8. Chapter 4. Learned Cooks and Culinary Lawyers: High, Middle, and Low Profession in the Universal Piazza 90
9. Chapter 5. Professions on Display: Dress and Ritual in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice 141
10. Chapter 6. The Arts and the 'Art of Dying' in Venice: Vocation in a Renaissance Death Book 177
11. Chapter 7. Conclusion 203
12. Notes 217
13. Bibliography 347
14. Index 363