Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli During the Renaissance

by Edward Muir

Book Overview

Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical Association

Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals--the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular revolt in Renaissance Italy (and the basis for the story of Romeo and Juliet). Mad Blood Stirring is a gripping account and analysis of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801858496
• ISBN13: 9780801858499
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"