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Hardcover, white cloth, 1ST EDITION, 1993, issued without dust jacket. xx, 308pp. By Thomas V. Cohen and Elizabeth S. Cohen, published by University of Toronto Press. B/w illustrations, bibliography, index. Publisher's statement: "In this presentation of nine criminal trials of sixteenth-century Rome (1540-75), where magistrates kept verbatim records, Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen paint a lively portrait of a society, one that is reminiscent of Boccaccio. There stories, however, are true. Each trial transcript is followed by an essay that interprets the beliefs, codes, everyday speech, and personal transactions of a world that is radically different from our own. The people on trial include assassins, a spell-caster, an exorcist, an adulterous wife, several courtesans, and the peasant cast of a bawdy, sacriligeous play. Out of their often poignant troubles, and their machinations, comes a vivid revelation of not only the tumultous street life of Rome but also rituals of honour, the power and weakness of women, and the realities of social and economic hierarchies."
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The social historian, searching for the basis of a culture, often turns to a study of ordinary people. Perhaps one of the most revealing places to find them is in a court of law. In this presentation of nine criminal trials of sixteenth-century Rome (1540-75), where magistrates kept verbatim records, Thomas and Elizabeth Cohen paint a lively portrait of a society, one that is reminiscent of Boccaccio. These stories, however are true.
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Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome: Trials before the Papal Magistrates
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1993], 1993
ISBN 10: 080202825X
ISBN 13: 9780802028259
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original white cloth with bronze lettering and decoration, octavo, pp. xx, 308. Black and white illustrations. Glossary. Map: Mid sixteenth-century Rome. Dust jacket was not issued with this title. Scarce in hardcover. Seller Inventory # 22244