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Love and death in Renaissance Italy

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Love and death in Renaissance Italy
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In Renaissance Italy, there were courts in which magistrates administered justice to vicious villains. In his book, Thomas Cohen recounts six episodes of Italian life in the mid-16th century, when the Renaissance was receding under the onslaught of the Catholic Counter-Reformation: each chapter tells of a domestic drama that suddenly changes the lives of ordinary Romans. Stories of forbidden love for an orphaned nun, of brothers who extort a dying sister's will, of a lecherous papal procurator who indulges in multiple sins - all are based on documentary evidence, and their study is based on a careful analysis of court records in Rome's state archives. Outlining each episode of his saga with wit and ingenuity, Cohen at the same time demonstrates the relevance of a microhistorical approach to contemporary academic research. In the monograph, the author sets a task that is relevant to today's humanities scholarship: to assess the extent to which sixteenth-century Roman society was regulated by the rules of traditional culture, to determine how the freedom of women who came from different classes was restricted, and to what extent they were able to resist these restrictions. Thomas Cohen is a historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of York.
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