Emotional Arenas : Life, Love, and Death in 1870s Italy

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Emotional Arenas: Life, Love, and Death in 1870s Italy
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
	Prologue
	An Emotional Microhistory
	Emotions and Historians
	Emotional Arenas
	Arenas Real and Virtual
1: Intimate Arenas: A New Couple for a New Kingdom
	A Spring Wedding
	The New Civil Law and a Mobile Couple
	Couples and Kin by Correspondence
	Early Marital Tribulations
	Marriage Observed in a Regional Town
	Rome, or Death!
	Conclusion
2: Arena of Desire: The Circus
	A Circus Comes to Town
	An Ancient ‘Emotional Arena’
	Family, Sex, and Money in the Provinces
	The Female Gaze
	Arenas Licit and Illicit
	La Voce Pubblica
	Conclusion: The Circus Departs
3: Virtual Arenas: Illicit Love by Letter
	Hidden Emotions
	Detecting Feeling in Letters
	Cardinali’s Cache and Italian Amorous Culture
	Making Love by Letter: Three Women
	Courting by Correspondence: M. N. +
	Romance and Reality
	The End of M. N.’s Arena
	Conclusion
4: Arenas of Mortality: From Eros to Thanatos
	Death in the New Italy
	Deaths Great and Small
	The Death of a Mother
	A Wedding and a Funeral
	Death Throes of a Marriage
	A Murderous Mission
	A Death Foretold?
	Hot Blood, or Cold?
	Death in Forensic Arenas
	Fadda’s Funeral
	Conclusion
5: Arena or Temple?: The Trial in Rome’s Court of Assizes
	Arena for Liberalism, or Colosseum Revisited?
	Italy’s Legal System in Context
	The Court as a Temple
	A Hungry Press
	Il Processo Fadda, Day One
	The Accused Appear
	Daily Hearings: Routine and Pathos
	Moving Rhetoric
	The Defence
	Intermezzo, with Clowns
	From Ridiculous to Sublime
	The Verdicts
	Conclusion
Conclusion
	Reviewing Emotional Arenas
	Epilogue
Bibliography
	Primary sources
		Archives
		Newspapers
		Contemporary compilations of newspaper reports on the Fadda trial
		Official publications
	Secondary sources
Index