The captain's concubine
love, honor, and violence in Renaissance Tuscany
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Author
Publication
2000 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
54,750 words, Guess
Page Count
219 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6775875M
- ISBN-100801864755
- OCLC Control Number43539891
- OCLC Control Numbercaptainsconcubin0000wein
- Library of Congress Control Number00008337
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- Goodreads1212873
Classifications
- DDC945/.5207/0922
- LCCDG975.P65 W45 2000
Description
"On March 21, 1578, Holy Thursday, cavalier Fabrizio Bracciolini charged that he had been ambushed, slashed, stoned, and left bleeding in a Pistoia street by fellow cavalier Mariotto Cellesi and four accomplices. In The Captain's Concubine: Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany, Donald Weinstein studies the lengthy investigation of the incident, bares the motives of the actors, and follows the ensuing trial. Weinstein examines the roles of the patricians, merchants, shopkeepers, weavers, priests, and prostitutes who served as audience, bit players, and chorus in this Renaissance street-theater drama. When Fabrizio is revealed to be the lover of Chiara, the concubine of Mariotto's father, questioning moves away from the street fight itself to the right of the defendants to take revenge for violated family honor: accuser becomes accused, and a simple case of assault turns into a community's discussion of its most tenacious values."--BOOK JACKET.
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