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The Captain's Concubine: Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany

The Captain's Concubine: Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany


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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. Lurching from comedy to tragedy and neglected even by local chroniclers, the Holy Thursday incident involved issues of honor, family, religion, gender relations, and power familiar to social historians of late medieval and early modern Europe. For the Medici ruler of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Holy Thursday affair presented a dilemma: bound to regard duels and street fights as threats to an all too fragile public order and a challenge to his sovereignty, Francesco I nevertheless respected and fostered the aristocratic code of honor, family loyalty, and chivalric valor to which the Cellesi appealed. How these contradictions were accommodated is a crucial part of the story Weinstein tells.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Standards in Sixteenth-Century Pistoia Chapter 1. The Holy Thursday Incident Chapter 2. History and Comedy Chapter 3. Pistoia and Medici State Chapter 4. The Cellesi Chapter 5. The Bracciolini Chapter 6. The Order of Santo Stefano Chapter 7. The Prosecco Chapter 8. Peacemaking I Chapter 9. Chiara Chapter 10. Asdrubale Chapter 11. Mariotto Chapter 12. Peacemaking II Chapter 13. Fabrizio Chapter 14. Love Letters Chapter 15. The Verdict Chapter 16. The Sentence Chapter 17. What It All Means Chapter 18. And Then What Happened? Epilogue: The New and the Old Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Donald Weinstein is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Arizona. He is the author of several books of medieval and Renaissance history, including Savonarola and Florence: Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance.

Review :
Weinstein succeeds not only in telling a memorable story, but also in illuminating core values and beliefs that usually remain opaque both to historians and to contemporaries . . . This splendid book tells us much about the practical interpretations of honor in Renaissance Tuscany. —Christopher Carlsmith, Sixteenth Century Journal His story of merchants, priests, and prostitutes is told with a narrative vivacity that is exceptional in scholarly historical writing. —Virginia Quarterly Review A book that forces the reader to think. —Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., American Historical Review This skillfully developed micro-history, presented as a lively drama, is a pleasure to read. —Joanne M. Ferraro, Journal of Social History A well-told tale that analyzes how sixteenth-century Tuscans defined chivalry, honor, and loyalty. —Michelle Mirandon, Comitatus A highly entertaining, well-written, easily-digestible narrative . . . a book that is not easy to put down. —Trevor Dean, English Historical Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801877117
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • ISBN-10: 0801877113
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jul 2003
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany


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