Format:
Online-Ressource (317 p.)
ISBN:
9780226112589
Content:
Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation.Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gr
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Double Murder in Cretone Castle; 2. Lost Love and a Handkerchief; 3. The Last Will of Vittoria Giustini; 4. This Is My Dowry: The Vile Loves of Prosecutor Pallantieri; 5. The Lady Lives, The Pigeon Dies; 6. Three in a Bed: The Sedution of Innocentia; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226112602
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226112589
Additional Edition:
Print version Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
Language:
English
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