Banditry and Social Identity in the Republic of Venice. Ludovico da Porto, his Family and his Property (1567-1640)
In the later sixteenth century the Venetian state suffered from widespread criminal violence. Government set harsher penalties and in 1578 even authorized confiscating condemned criminals’ fideicommissa, assigning their property to murder victims’ relatives. Outlaws’ families therefore had to use su...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2010
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| Samenvatting: | In the later sixteenth century the Venetian state suffered from widespread criminal violence. Government set harsher penalties and in 1578 even authorized confiscating condemned criminals’ fideicommissa, assigning their property to murder victims’ relatives. Outlaws’ families therefore had to use subtle legal defence, since this law affected their wealth but also their honour and feuding’s compensatory mechanisms.Count Ludovico da Porto, bandit and hero, symbolizes the power struggle among Vicenza’s main noble families; his experience and the confiscation of his property exemplify Venetian action to control the turbulent mainland state, proving the long-term efficacy of the exceptional measures taken. |
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