Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy

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.