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

by Robert C. Davis

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195084039
• ISBN13: 9780195084030
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"