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This is a study of Florentine criminal justice under the first three Medici grand dukes. It is important for the amount of detail it offers for such an early period, and it helps to vitiate the usefulness of the term 'absolutist', which conveys a misleading picture of the early modern state.Brackett, John K. is the author of 'Criminal Justice and Crime in Late Renaissance Florence, 1537-1609' with ISBN 9780521404051 and ISBN 0521404053.
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