
The Captain's Concubine
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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.
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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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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
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