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Article: Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy.(Review) (book review)
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- January 1, 2000
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Astarita, Tommaso Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 305 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6138-1 Publication Date: August 1999
Pentidattilo, as described by Tommaso Astarita, was the kind of village that one would imagine to be lost in time, even by early-eighteenth-century standards. Built into the craggy hillsides of the southernmost point of mainland Italy, it was home to only a few hundred people. One of them, Domenica Orlando, poisoned her husband in 1710; the resulting trial is the frame for Astarita's study of Pentidattilo's society.
Although it would be hard to find a ...