Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice : Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557–1789 / / Joanne M. Ferraro.
This captivating history exposes a clandestine world of family and community secrets—incest, abortion, and infanticide—in the early modern Venetian republic. With the keen eye of a detective, Joanne M. Ferraro follows the clues in individual cases from the criminal archives of Venice and reconstruct...
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Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2008. ©2008. |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 248 p. :); ill., map ; |
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