The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice by Robert C. Davis

The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice

Robert C. Davis

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

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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 ba...

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