Clean Hands and Rough Justice : An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization)

clean hands and rough justice : an investigating magistrate in renaissance italy (studies in medieval and early modern civilization)

Clean Hands and Rough Justice : An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization)

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It is rarely possible to write biographies of lay people who lived in the Middles Ages. While accounts of clerical, royal, and military life are many, the wider populace has remained in relative obscurity. In Clean Hands and Rough Justice: An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy, David S. Chambers and Trevor Dean present an extraordinary and previously unknown character from Renaissance Italy, Beltramino Cusadri (ca. 1425-1500). This judge was known as the "terrible commissioner," and he spent most of his professional life acting as criminal investigator and legal adviser to two princely dynasties--the Gonzaga of Mantua and the Este of Ferrara.

Clean Hands and Rough Justice: An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization),David S Chambers,Trevor Dean,University of Michigan Press,0472107488,16th century,Biography,Criminal justice, Administration of,Cusadri, Beltramino,,Europe - Italy,History,History: World,Italy,Judges,Law,Legal History,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Medieval,Podestáa,Renaissance,Roman Law,ca. 1424-ca. 1499,Criminal law,Cusadri, Beltramino,Europe,Law / General,Social history

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