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 ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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