A study of Florentine criminal justice under the reign of the first three Medici grand dukes.

Drawing on a wide body of internationally-renowned scholars, including a core of Italians, this volume focuses on new material and puts crime and disorder in Re

In Florence, in the summer of 1501, a man named Antonio Rinaldeschi was arrested and hanged after throwing horse dung at an outdoor painting of the Virgin Mary.

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This book is the first to investigate the practice of summary justice in a late medieval Italian commune. In delineating the political and social context of tha