David Chambers Trevor Dean (17 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. Very Good, internally clean, solid hard cover First American Printing in a Good Plus dust jacket missing one tiny piece and having a somewhat faded spine. The book has some minor fading to the covers.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Condition: New. 1997. Reprint. paperback. . . . . .

Condition: New. pp. 340.

Condition: New. In English.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. First edition. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. ix, 321 pages with illustrations, footnotes, 2 appendices, glossary, bibliography, and index. A biography of the Podesta/judge Beltramino Cusadri (d. 1500) who served the Gonzaga of Mantua and the Este of Ferrara and look at how justice was handled in Renaissance Italy.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book in black boards has very minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Jacket in mylar cover has faded spine, mildly faded inch at bottom front cover. Map inside front cover (identical to map inside back cover) is upside down.

Condition: New. 1997. Reprint. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New. pp. 340.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. ix, 321 pp. + plates, preface, abbreviations, introduction, 1. The Challenge of Crime in the Este State; 2. Crime and Punishment in Gonzaga Mantua; 3. Beltramino's Origins and Early Careet in Mantua; 4. Beltramino's Later Career in Mantua and His Downfall; 5. Judicial Crisis in Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio; 6. Beltramino in Modena and Reggio; 7. After Beltramino: Crime and Punishment in Mantua, 1484-99; Epilogue: Mantua and the end of Beltramino; conclusion. appendices: 1. selected letters of Beltramino; 2. list of the podestas of Ferrara, Mantua, Modena, and Reggio; glossary, bibliography, index, the b&w plates. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization: First Edition, 1997. "The authors present an extraordinary and previously unknown character from Renaissance Italy, Beltramino Cusadri (ca. 1425-1500). This judge was known as the "terrible commissioner," and he spent most of his professional life acting as criminal investigator and legal adviser to two princely dynasties--the Gonzaga of Mantua and the Este of Ferrara. investigate and compare the judicial institutions and social conditions in which Beltramino Cusadri worked, the criminal cases that he investigated, and his successes and failures. Their combined presentation of the figure and mentality of Cusadri amounts to something unprecedented in Italian Renaissance historiography: the portrait of a professional man, employed to combat rising crime, but accused of corruption and tyranny by the entrenched interests that he faced." Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and map on endpapers. Size: Large 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Cloth, VG; dw, sl faded.

Condition: New. It is rarely possible to write biographies of lay people who lived in the Middle Ages. While accounts of clerical, royal, and military life are many, the wider populace has remained in relative obscurity. In Clean Hands and Rough Justice, David S. Chambers .