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Love & death in Renaissance Italy / Thomas V. Cohen.
LIBRA DG445 .C64 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Thomas V. (Thomas Vance), 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Renaissance.
- Manners and customs.
- Italy--Social life and customs--To 1500--Sources.
- Italy.
- Renaissance--Italy--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 306 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Love and death in Renaissance Italy
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Forbidden love, rape, murder, adultery: "Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant, scandalous episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era Catholic reformation.
- Contents:
- Double 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226112586
- OCLC:
- 54111500
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