Full Title (Italian)
ARCHIVIO DELLA SOCIETA' ROMANA DI STORIA PATRIA
Publisher
SOCIETA' ROMANA DI STORIA PATRIA
ISSN
0391-6952 (Online Journal)
Journal Volume Number
143
Journal Issue Date
2021
Full Title (Italian)
Le carceri romane nel Quattrocento: la Cancellaria Capitolii
By (author)
Number of Pages
21
First Page
77
Last Page
97
Language of text
Italian
Publication Date
2021
Copyright
2021 Società romana di storia patria - ETS
Main description (English)
The purpose of this short work is to focus attention on a subject that is still little investigated by historiography: Roman prisons in the fifteenth century. While we know very a great deal about how prisons functioned during the early modern age, we cannot say the same for the late Middle Ages. This article aims to fill this lacuna by examining the numerous and diverse documents preserved in Roman archives, and by comparing the case of Rome to that of other, recently investigated Italian cities, such as Milan, Venice, Florence and Bologna.
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