Tutela - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:58:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Tutela - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Camila Gonzaga, Countess of San Segundo and her children https://historylab.es/camila-gonzaga-countess-of-san-segundo-and-her-children/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=camila-gonzaga-countess-of-san-segundo-and-her-children Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:26 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/camila-gonzaga-condesa-de-san-segundo-y-sus-hijos/ Camila Gonzaga, married to the Count of San Secondo, is portrayed with three of her six children by Parmigianino

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]]> Portraits of marriage and family are common in the Modern Age, allowing us to detect forms of relationship between husband and wife and family compositions. This portrait by Parmigianino depicts Camilla Gonzaga, married to the Count of San Secondo, emphasising her role as a mother. The iconography of the work depicts, apparently for the first time in Italy, a woman surrounded by her children in the manner of classical charity. Revealing is the hardness of the mother’s face, with a certain restrained smile, while the children approach the cord around her waist with their hands, considering it an element of security. She gives the impression that with one of them she wants to break the bonds of dependence, with another she seems to warn him of a possible withdrawal and only allows the youngest to cling to her. Her attitude, together with the direction of the children’s gaze, leaves a clear message: age forces a change in mother-child relationships and male life and promotion are associated with going out of the domestic space.

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]]> Pupil cost evolution (1595-1628) https://historylab.es/pupil-cost-evolution-1595-1628/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pupil-cost-evolution-1595-1628 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:25 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/evolucion-del-coste-pupilar-1595-1628/ Table showing the cost of pupillage at eight points in time between 1595 and 1628

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]]> From the first half of the 16th century onwards, the University of Salamanca provided accommodation for students who would be tutored by a bachelor so that the young people could progress in their studies while having basic aspects such as food, religious education and board covered.
Not all the boarding schools were of the same social category and did not pay the same price, but it is clear from the figures that the great majority came from privileged social groups with economic possibilities. Parents would commission this boarding as an investment in order to make their children more profitable for them.
As opposed to this complete boarding school, other models emerged, such as the governorship or the camaristas, with more economically accessible services because each one covered their needs with the amounts they could contribute, and not a fixed rate for all of them, with the cost of maintenance being approximately 65% of the total.

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