This is from “A History of Florence, 1200-1575” by John Najemy. This passage is about the period around 1380.pic.twitter.com/fkX4xK43vR
An important question in the history of crime is when it became associated with the lower classes. Guido Ruggiero looked at 14th century Venice closely and found that nobles, only four percent of the population were greatly overrepresented as perpetrators of assault and rape:pic.twitter.com/d9N2eQMg1K
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My impression from that book is that in Florence, during the period covered, the middle class was less prone to violence than either the aristocracy or the working class. The upper class became less violent with time.
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Lumbroso started this trope
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