Murder and Madness on Trial : : A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna / / Mònica Calabritto.
On October 24, 1588, Paolo Barbieri murdered his wife, Isabella Caccianemici, stabbing her to death with his sword. Later, Paolo would claim to have acted in a fit of madness-but was he criminally insane or merely pretending to be? In this riveting book, Mònica Calabritto addresses this controversy...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interactions in the Early Modern Age
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (164 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Prologue to a Murder
- Chapter 2 Medicine and Law on Trial
- Chapter 3 Insanity on Trial
- Chapter 4 Witnessing and Chronicling
- Chapter 5 The Aftermath
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX