The wine porters of Northern Italy and their saint, 1200–1800
by
Lester Little
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Indispensable immigrants recreates the world of peasants who streamed into the cities of late medieval and early modern northern Italy to carry crushingly heavy containers of wine. Written in an easily accessible and unassuming style, it is solidly grounded in previously untapped archival and visual...