Early Modern Studies: Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy

Book Overview

In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful-at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads describing particular executions. Leading scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931112886
• ISBN13: 9781931112888
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"