Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome : : Trials before the Papal Magistrates / / Elizabeth S. Cohen, Thomas V. Cohen.

The social historian, searching for the basis of a culture, often turns to a study of ordinary people. Perhaps one of the most revealing places to find them is in a court of law. In this presentatoin of nine criminal trials of sixteenth-century Rome (1540-75), where magistrates kept verbatim records...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Glossary
  • Map and Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Abbot's Assassins
  • CHAPTER TWO. Paolo di Grassi and His Courtesans
  • CHAPTER THREE. Ottavia and Her Music Teacher
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Agostino Bonamore and the Secret Pigeon
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Camilla the Go-Between
  • CHAPTER SIX. Lucrezia's Magic
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Exorcist and the Spell-Caster
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Village Play
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Illustration Credits