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Perfume, Beauty, and Cosmetics in Renaissance Venice
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- ISBN8235603691
- EAN9798235603691
- Date de parution28/04/2026
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- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
Perfume, Beauty, and Cosmetics in Renaissance Venice opens the door to a world of scent, craft, beauty, luxury, experiment, and risk in sixteenth-century Venice. This compact historical edition presents a new English translation of Giovanventura Rosetti's practical manual of soaps, pomades, perfumed waters, oils, powders, face preparations, glove dressings, hair treatments, tooth powders, varnishes, colourings, bead compounds, and related workshop arts.
What makes Rosetti so compelling is not only the range of recipes, but the sense of entering a working room where things are boiled, strained, infused, pounded, scented, sealed, corrected, and tried again. Musk, civet, ambergris, benzoin, storax, rosewater, gums, oils, lye, flowers, mineral substances, and imported aromatics move through these pages with a vividness that makes the Renaissance feel close, physical, and real.
Though concise in length, the book is rich in ingredients, procedures, and sensory detail. It offers readers direct access to a sixteenth-century world in which bodily care, perfumery, household craft, and small technical arts still belonged together. This is not a modern beauty manual dressed up as history. It is a serious, readable edition of a Venetian recipe book in which beauty, fragrance, commerce, experiment, and risk meet on the page.
The volume includes a new English translation, an introduction placing Rosetti in the material and sensory world of Renaissance Venice, source images from the 1560 edition, editorial notes, an extensive glossary of ingredients and materials, and a selected bibliography. Readers interested in perfume history, cosmetics, Renaissance daily life, historical making, and material culture will find here more than a curiosity.
This book offers a revealing encounter with a fascinating practical tradition, and with a way of understanding the material world that now feels at once strange and surprisingly near. Some ingredients and procedures recorded here are unsafe by modern standards. This book is offered for historical and cultural reading, not as a guide for present-day use.
What makes Rosetti so compelling is not only the range of recipes, but the sense of entering a working room where things are boiled, strained, infused, pounded, scented, sealed, corrected, and tried again. Musk, civet, ambergris, benzoin, storax, rosewater, gums, oils, lye, flowers, mineral substances, and imported aromatics move through these pages with a vividness that makes the Renaissance feel close, physical, and real.
Though concise in length, the book is rich in ingredients, procedures, and sensory detail. It offers readers direct access to a sixteenth-century world in which bodily care, perfumery, household craft, and small technical arts still belonged together. This is not a modern beauty manual dressed up as history. It is a serious, readable edition of a Venetian recipe book in which beauty, fragrance, commerce, experiment, and risk meet on the page.
The volume includes a new English translation, an introduction placing Rosetti in the material and sensory world of Renaissance Venice, source images from the 1560 edition, editorial notes, an extensive glossary of ingredients and materials, and a selected bibliography. Readers interested in perfume history, cosmetics, Renaissance daily life, historical making, and material culture will find here more than a curiosity.
This book offers a revealing encounter with a fascinating practical tradition, and with a way of understanding the material world that now feels at once strange and surprisingly near. Some ingredients and procedures recorded here are unsafe by modern standards. This book is offered for historical and cultural reading, not as a guide for present-day use.