Florence à l’écritoire: Écriture et mémoire dans l'Italie de la Renaissance. Christiane Klapisch-Zuber,. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2023. 254 pp. €12

Despite their differences in age, status, and profession, each person discussed in this book provides—more or less overtly—a self-fashioning case study. [...]the third and last part of the book, “L'honneur se joue dans l’écriture,” is the most concerned with methodological issues. Understandably, rituals like births, christenings, weddings, and funerals play a crucial role within these social dynamics; as such, they receive particular attention both in the sources studied by Klapisch-Zuber and in her analysis of them.