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In 1363 the Black Death struck central Italy for the second time, causing a
detectable shift in notions of the afterlife and patterns of charitable giving.
Throughout Tuscany and Umbria, patricians and peasants alike abandoned their
previous practice of dividing bequests into small sums, combining them instead
into last gifts to enhance their "fame and glory" and that of their lineages.
Illustrative of the new mentality, religious art patronage spread to new social
classes, touching even peasants, who sought to be represented "in their very
likeness" at the feet of their patron saints. From the supposed center of
Renaissance culture--Florence--to the citadel of Franciscan
devotion--Assisi--this change in sentiment spurred new levels of demand for
monumental burials, testamentary commissions for art, and other efforts to
exert control over the living from the grave. In his award-winning study,
'Death and Property in Siena', historian Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., used close
analysis of last wills to chart transformations in mentalities over a
six-hundred-year history. In 'The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death', he applies the same
methods to compare six Italian city-states--Arezzo, Florence, Perugia, Assisi,
Pisa, and Siena--showing the rise of a new Renaissance cult of remembrance. But
this new cult was not Burckhardt's Renaissance "individualism" 'tout court'.
Instead, the new piety grew in tandem with reverence for the ancestors and a
strong sense of family identity that flowed down male blood lines. In 1363, the Black Death struck central Italy for a second time, causing a
shift in notions of the afterlife and patterns of charitable giving. In this
study, the author analyzes wills to chart the transformations in mentalities
and the rise of a cult of remembrance through religious art patronage.
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