Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537 1609

A study of Florentine criminal justice under the reign of the first three Medici grand dukes.

Zusammenfassung
This is a study of Florentine criminal justice under the first three Medici grand dukes. It is important for the amount of detail it offers for such an early period, and it helps to vitiate the usefulness of the term 'absolutist', which conveys a misleading picture of the early modern state.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The bureaucratic structure of the Otto: the personnel and their functions; 2. Financing the Otto; 3. The Otto as police: organization and function; 4. Criminal procedure before the Otto: from discovery to sentencing; 5. The Otto and its role in the centralization of criminal justice in the Florentine state; 6. Crime and criminals; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.