The Art of Executing Well : : Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy / / ed. by Nicholas Terpstra.
In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful-at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early Modern Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Graphs, Illustrations, and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Th e Other Side of the Scaffold
- Contexts
- Chapter 1 Scaffold and Stage: Comforting Rituals and Dramatic Traditions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- Chapter 2 Comforting with Song: Using Laude to Assist Condemned Prisoners
- Chapter 3 Mirror of a Condemned: Th e Religious Poems of Andrea Viarani
- Chapter 4 In Your Face: Paintings for the Condemned in Renaissance Italy
- Chapter 5 Consolation or Condemnation: Th e Debates on Withholding Sacraments from Prisoners
- Chapter 6 Theory into Practice: Executions, Comforting, and Comforters in Renaissance Italy
- Illustrations
- Contemporary Texts
- Chapter 7 Th e Bologna Comforters' Manual Comforting by the Books: Editorial Notes on the Bologna Comforters' Manual
- Chapter 8 Luca della Robbia's Narrative on the Execution of Pietro Paolo Boscoli and Agostino Capponi
- Chapter 9 Public Execution in Popular Verse: Th e Poems of Giulio Cesare Croce
- Contributors
- Index
- Biblical Index