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The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice
The War of the Fists Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice
Author: Robert C. Davis
The War of the Fists is a study of seventeenth-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or battagliole, which the town's two popular factions waged on public bridges. These "little battles" were partly festive battle, partly sport, and partly thinly veiled plebeian mayhem: they could involve as many as a thousa...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195084030
ISBN-10: 0195084039
Publication Date: 3/10/1994
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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