Words and deeds in Renaissance Rome trials before the papal magistrates
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| Sprache: | English |
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Toronto, Ont.
University of Toronto Press
c1993
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references and index Ch. 1. The Abbot's Assassins -- Ch. 2. Paolo di Grassi and His Courtesans -- Ch. 3. Ottavia and Her Music Teacher -- Ch. 4. Agostino Bonamore and the Secret Pigeon -- Ch. 5. Camilla the Go-Between -- Ch. 6. Lucrezia's Magic -- Ch. 7. The Exorcist and the Spell-Caster -- Ch. 8. The Village Play 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, Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen paint a lively portrait of a society, one that is reminiscent of Boccaccio. These stories, however, are true.Each trial transcript is followed by an essay that interprets the beliefs, codes, everyday speech, and personal transactions of a world that is radically different from our own. The people on trial include assassins, a spell-caster, an exorcist, an adulterous wife, several courtesans, and the peasant cast of a bawdy, sacrilegious play. Out of their often pognant troubles, and their machinations, comes a vivid revelation of not only the tumultuous street life of Rome but also rituals of honour, the power and weakness of women, and the realities of social and economic hierarchies.Like cinema-verite, Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome gives us an intimate glimpse of a people and their world |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 308 p.) |
| ISBN: | 1282045849 1442683627 9780802028259 9780802076991 9781282045842 9781442683624 |