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La Piazza universale di Tomaso Garzoni: una svolta nella letteratura del lavoro

  • Paolo Cherchi

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.

  • Keywords:
  • Encyclopedism,
  • work,
  • trades,
  • jobs history,
  • work ethics,
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Paolo Cherchi

University of Chicago, United States

  1. Bragonzoni, Renzo. 2012. Uno scrittore del tardo Cinquecento: Tommaso Garzoni. Bagnacavallo: Discanti.
  2. Cherchi, Paolo. 1981. Enciclopedismo e politica della riscrittura: Tommaso Garzoni. Pisa: Pacini.
  3. Cherchi, Paolo. 2022. Die Eroberung der Würde der Arbeit bei Garzoni und Grimmelshausen. In Grimmelshausen 400. Hrsg. Italo Battafarano, Lousanne, Peter Lang, 99-117.
  4. Cherchi, Paolo, e Walter Pretolani. 2007. Saggio di una bibliografia garzoniana. Ravenna: VACA.
  5. Garzoni, Tomaso. 1993. Opere, a cura di Paolo Cherchi. Ravenna: Longo (discorsi scelti de La Piazza, 543-652).
  6. Garzoni, Tomaso. 1996. La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo, a cura di Paolo Cherchi, e Beatrice Collina, 2 voll. Torino: Einaudi.
  7. Mocarelli, Luca 2011. “Attitudes to Work and Commerce in the Late Italian Renaissance: A Comparison between Tomaso Garzoni’s La Piazza Universale and Leonardo Fioravanti’s Dello Specchio Di Scientia Universale.” International Review of Social History 56: 89-106.
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Chapter Information

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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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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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

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

1894

Publication Year

2024

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© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7

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979-12-215-0245-9

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979-12-215-0319-7

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979-12-215-0320-3

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Studi e saggi

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2704-6478

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2704-5919

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