Bathhouses and Riverbanks: Sodomy in a Renaissance Republic

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Bathhouses and Riverbanks: Sodomy in a Renaissance RepublicOverview Bathhouses and Riverbanks carries out, for the first time in English, a thorough examination of the criminal records dealing with sodomy in the Republic of Lucca from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. It does this by analysing the work and activities of the Office of Decency, the magistracy entirely devoted to the disciplining of sexual non conformity. The great tableau that emerges depicts a reality marked by conflicts and

Umberto Grassi is a Marie Skłodowska Curie global fellow at the Research Centre PoliTeSse (Politics and Theories of Sexuality

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