LEADER 04190nam 22006734a 450 001 9910781051403321 005 20230926152401.0 010 $a1-282-50417-7 010 $a9786612504174 010 $a0-226-11260-8 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226112602 035 $a(CKB)2550000000006831 035 $a(EBL)481225 035 $a(OCoLC)609855191 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000362672 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11304655 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362672 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10386671 035 $a(PQKB)11676208 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122040 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC481225 035 $a(DE-B1597)524317 035 $a(OCoLC)748211301 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226112602 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL481225 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364134 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL250417 035 $a(dli)HEB06180 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000009824433 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000006831 100 $a20040121h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLove & death in Renaissance Italy /$fThomas V. Cohen 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d2004. 210 4$aŠ2004 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 306 pages) $cillustrations, map 311 0 $a0-226-26971-X 311 0 $a0-226-11258-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-287) and index. 327 $aDouble murder in Cretone Castle -- Lost love and a handkerchief -- The last will of Vittoria Giustini -- "This is my dowry" : the vile loves of prosecutor Pallantieri -- The lady lives, the pigeon dies -- Three in a bed : the seduction of Innocentia. 330 $aGratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book-when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante-as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining. 517 3 $aLove and death in Renaissance Italy 606 $aRenaissance$zItaly$vSources 607 $aItaly$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1500$vSources 610 $aromance, time period, era, italian, europe, western, sex, sexuality, violence, lies, revenge, murder, crime, criminal, courts, courtly, society, upper class, classism, magistrate, justice, scandal, scandalous, 1500s, 16th century, catholic, christian, reformation, history, historical, drama, domestic, daily life, roman, true, archives, archival, castle, dowry. 615 0$aRenaissance 676 $a945/.05 700 $aCohen$b Thomas V$g(Thomas Vance),$f1942-$0890504 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781051403321 996 $aLove & death in Renaissance Italy$91989201 997 $aUNINA