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First published online October, 1997

Review Essay : POWER,FAMILY,AND HOUSEHOLD IN EARLY MODERN ITALY Monica Chojnacka Giovanna Benadusi,A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany: Family and Power in the Creation of the State. Baltimore,MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,1996,pp. xiii + 259. U.S. $45 (hardcover). James S. Grubb,Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto. Baltimore,MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,1996,pp. xvii + 344. U.S. $45 (hardcover). Dennis Romano,Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice,1400-1600. Baltimore,MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,1996,xxvi + 333. U.S. $45 (hardcover