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Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609 (Hardcover, New)
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Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609 (Hardcover, New)
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This book considers the nature and extent of princely power in
Florence in the late 16th century through an examination of the
city's criminal justice system. Focusing on the court Otto Di
Guardia e Balia (Eight on Public Safety), on its police, prisons
and relations with other courts, John Brackett reveals much about
the rule of law in the capital city and its subject territory.
Major emphasis is placed on the financial limits imposed on the
judiciary and revealing conclusions drawn on how these constraints
acted upon the system. Brackett suggests that money rather than the
practice of an ideology of repression or absolutism, was behind the
formation of what is commonly considered an extreme and inflexible
system. In truth, he reveals that the system was flexible and
moderate, based on a system of negotiation in which various parties
were able to exercise their influence, deploying strategies to help
themselves realise their own interests. The Medici Grand Dukes, the
author concludes, cannot be categorised as absolutist or their
system as absolutism, but rather as politicians running a tightly
financed but highly practical legal system.
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