Weinstein The Captain's Concubine

Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7711-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinstein, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Weinstein, Donald
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.