Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy

Abstract

Preface List of contributors 1. Writing the history of crime in the Italian Renaissance Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe 2. Criminal justice in mid fifteenth-century Bologna Trevor Dean 3. The judicial system in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Andrea Zorzi 4. The incidence of crime in Sicily in the mid fifteenth century: the evidence from composition records Alan Ryder 5. Theology, nature and the law: sexual sin and sexual crime in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century Nicholas Davidson 6. Practical problems in the enforcement of Italian sumptuary law, 1200-1500 Catherine Kovesi Killerby 7. The prince, the judges and the law: Cosimo I and sexual violence, 1558 Elena Fasano Guarini 8. Intervention by church and state in marriage disputes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florence Daniela Lombardi 9. The writer and the man: real crimes and mitigating circumstances: Il caso Cellini Paolo Rossi 10. The political crime of conspiracy in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Rome Kate Lowe 11. Fighting or flyting?: verbal duelling in mid sixteenth-century Italy Donald Weinstein 12. Banditry and lawlessness on the Venetian terraferma in the later cinquecento Peter Laven 13. Mihi vindictam: aristocratic clans and rural communities in a feud in Friuli in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries Furio Bianco.