Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy Nature_Gift_Guide includes a new introduction by

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Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy Nature_Gift_Guide includes a new introduction byA thought provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyagesfruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial "opening up" of the world transformed the way