Tomaso Garzoni’s Piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo (1585) describes about five hundred kinds of jobs, both intellectual and manual. Garzoni tells the story of each one of them, its origins, its tools, its performers. It is an astounding display of the variety of human activities, from kings to executioners, comes with endless lists of the tools used by each profession and a host of historic and erudite data. All works, be high or humble, are indispensable in society: there are no good or bad jobs but only good and bad workers. The Piazza represents a turning point in the history of the work: it collects what was known about it while giving to it a literary dignity; moreover its “technical” description prepares the terrain for the scientific understanding of the work.
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Chapter Title
La Piazza universale di Tomaso Garzoni: una svolta nella letteratura del lavoro
Authors
Paolo Cherchi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.53
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Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919