Mad Blood Stirring Vendetta in Renaissance Italy

Name: Mad Blood Stirring Vendetta in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 9780801858499

ISBN-10: 0801858496

ISBN-13: 9780801858499

Edition: 1993 (Abridged)

Authors: Edward Muir

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Awarded the 1993 Howard Marraro Prize for the best book in Italian history Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals -- the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular revolt in Renaissance Italy (and the basis for the story of Romeo and Juliet). Mad Blood Stirring is a gripping account and analysis of this event, as well as the social structures and historical conflicts preceding it and the subtle shifts in the mentality of revenge it introduced. This new reader's edition offers students and general readers an abridged version of this classic work which shifts the focus from…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/26/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English