This title was awarded the 1993 Howard Marraro Prize for the best book on Italian history
Edward Muir is the Ver Steeg Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is the editor, with Guido Ruggiero, of Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective and Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe.
A model study of how vendetta and political disorder related to one
another . . . Superbly documented.
--Times Literary Supplement
A superbly researched book . . . The human detail is both vivid and
coherent.
--Italian Studies
An exceptional book accessible both to students and to general
readers.
--History
Muir is one of the best microhistorians of our day . . . His
careful analysis, persuasive reasoning, impressive documentation,
and lively prose demand close and careful attention. This book
should be required reading for anyone interested in early modern
Italy, and more widely, for those who study social or
microhistory.
--Sixteenth-Century Journal
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