Legge dell'illustrissimo et eccelletiss Sig. il Sig. Duca di Fiorenza in benefitio del Monasterio delle Conuertite, & dello Spedale dell'Innocenti : passata nel suo consiglio de 48. el di 19. di Settembre. 1553.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Florence (Tuscany)

Contributor:

Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.

Tuscany (Grand Duchy)

Giunta, printer.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Laws, etc.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800.

Prostitution.

Ex-prostitutes--Legal status, laws, etc--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800.

Ex-prostitutes.

Monastic and religious life of women--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800.

Monastic and religious life of women.

Convents--Italy--Florence--Early works to 1800.

Convents.

Italy--Florence.

Italy.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Legge in benefitio del Monasterio delle Conuertite, & dello Spedale dell'Innocenti

Firenze statuti 1553-1561 PU

Fingerprint:

ne,e hea- nou- ti,& (C) 1553 (A)

Place of Publication:

In Fiorenza : Appresso i Giunti, [1553]

Notes:

Signature: A⁴.

Medici crest on the title-page.

Historiated inital.

Ordinance issued by Cosimo I de'Medici ordering that one fourth of the goods of deceased prostitutes be given to the Monastero delle Convertite, the convent for repentant prostitues. Cf. Erdmann.

Dated: "Die SIS. Septembris M. D. LIII. obtenta in consiglio XXIIII. vir." -- p. [2].

Colophon: Bando per me Domenico Barlacchi gusto di so. di Settembre, 1553.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy has attached to the copy a single folded sheet headed "Magnifico nostro" and signed "Offitiales Honestatis Ciuitatis Florentiae", recommending enforcement of the law which mulcts prostitutes for the benefit of charities.

Lea Library copy is item 1 in a vol. of 36 statutes of the Duchy of Florence and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

Cited in:

Erdmann, A. My gracious silence, 67

OCLC:

365349100