2004, ISBN: 0226112586

[EAN: 9780226112589], [SC: 5.5], [PU: University of Chicago Press], Jacket, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004. Hardcover. Dustjacket. viii, 306 pp. Gratuitous sex. Graphic viole… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780226112589], [SC: 5.5], [PU: University of Chicago Press], Jacket, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004. Hardcover. Dustjacket. viii, 306 pp. 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 out 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 lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante?as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780226112589. Keywords : HISTORY,, Books<

ISBN: 9780226112589

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 … Mehr…

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 lover as he catches them in "delicto flagrante"--as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is "true," and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. "Love and Death in Renaissance Italy" contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining. Media > Book, [PU: University of Chicago Press]<

2004, ISBN: 9780226112589

University, of Chicago Press, 306 p. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des Internation… Mehr…

University, of Chicago Press, 306 p. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Gutes Exemplar, nur leichte Abnutzung / Good copy, only slight wear. - CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I I 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 Seduction of Innocentia. ISBN 9780226112589Renaissance 2004, [PU: University of Chicago Press]<