Surveillance and Control of the Street in Renaissance Italy
Surveillance and Control of the Street in Renaissance Italy
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文艺复兴时期意大利街道的监视和控制
DOI:
10.1086/673404
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2013
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Nevola F
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Nevola F
ON MARCH 20, 1468, Pietro di Cristofano di Nanni and Bartolomeo di Pietro Carlo Piccolomini delivered a petition to the city of Siena’s supreme magistracy, the Concistoro, seeking the reduction of a penalty inflicted on them for an incident that had taken place the previous month. 1 Their petition is a long one and provides a full account of the events—from their point of view. Remarkably, the same archival series contains a total of four petitions presenting the same case for a total of fourteen men involved in the events in question. In addition to the Piccolomini, members of other leading families such as the Niccolucci and Aringhieri were involved, as well as numerous others. These documents, while largely repeating themselves, each offer additional details, so that a relatively complete picture emerges of the incident. So what happened, and what do these events tell us about power relations articulated in urban public space in fifteenth-century Siena? On February 26, the fourteen men had been out and about at night and had run into the “cavaliere del podestà,” an armed official of the city’s judicial office who had a small group of armed followers with him (his famiglia). 2 A skirmish broke out in which the cavaliere was lightly wounded by an arrow. Unfortunately the legal proceedings that would have detailed the events from the cavaliere’s perspective are missing in the archive, so we cannot reassemble how the verdict was