La prostitution florentine au XVe siècle

Prostitution networks in Quattrocento Florence Population and life in the official brothel fifteenth-century Florence is the subject of this article. Through the records of the Office of Decency, it first studies the provenance, housing, and longevity of the professional personnel. Then it identifies the origins and occupations of the clients. An examination of the Office of Decentry's court records shows that it did in fact protect the prostitutes from their clients as well as settle internal disputes and regulate whore activities Finally, this article places brothel prostitution within the larger context of a crisis of womanhood at the end the fifteenth century which involved as well nuns foundlings, servants, and old women. An office begun (1403) in a period of low population with the intention of combatting male homosexuality through sponsoring female prostitution began the new century by trying to stop prostitution's spread in a period of increasing population.Trexler Richard C. La prostitution florentine au XVe siècle. In: Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. 36ᵉ année, N. 6, 1981. pp. 983-1015