Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Name: Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 9780226112589

ISBN-10: 0226112586

ISBN-13: 9780226112589

Edition: 2004

Authors: Thomas V. Cohen

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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 gruesome murder that opens the book—when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.33" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Double Murder in Cretone Castle



Lost Love and a Handkerchief



The Last Will of Vittoria Giustini



"This Is My Dowry":The Vile Loves of Prosecutor Pallantieri



The Lady Lives, the Pigeon Dies



Three in a Bed:The Seduction of Innocentia


Notes


Index