General

Carroll, Stuart, 'Revenge and Reconciliation in Early Modern Italy', Past and Present 233 (2016), 101-142.

Dean, Trevor, ‘Marriage and Mutilation: Vendetta in Late Medieval Italy’Link opens in a new window, Past and Present 157 (1997), 3-36.

Dean, Trevor, and K.J.P. Lowe (eds), Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 1994)

Dean, Trevor, and K.J.P. Lowe (eds), Murder in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 2017)

Hanlon, Gregory, ‘Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model’, in Guido Ruggiero (ed.), A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance (Oxford, 2002), pp. 139-57.

Martines, Lauro, (ed.), Violence and Civil Disorder in Italian CitiesLink opens in a new window (Berkeley, 1972)

Muir, Edward, ‘The Sources of Civil Society in Italy’Link opens in a new window, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29.3 (1999), 379-406.

Quint, David, ‘Duelling and Civility in Sixteenth-Century Italy’, I Tatti Studies 7 (1997), 231-75.

Strocchia, Sharon T., ‘Gender and the Rites of Honor in Italian Renaissance Cities’, in Judith C. Brown and Robert C. Davis (eds), Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (London, 1998), pp. 39-60.

Venice

Bianco, Furio, 1511 La «crudel zobia grassa». Rivolte contadine e faide nobiliari in Friuli tra ‘400 e ‘500 (Pordenone, 1995) QS: Z 002Z 334

Carroll, Linda L., ‘Carnival Rites as Vehicles of Protest in Renaissance Venice’Link opens in a new window, Sixteenth Century Journal 16 (1985), 487-502.

Dall'Aglio, Stefano, The Duke's Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino de' MediciLink opens in a new window, trans. Donald Weinstein (New Haven, 2015)

Davidson, Nicholas S., ‘An Armed Band and the Local Community on the Venetian Terra Ferma in the Sixteenth Century’, in Gherardo Ortalli (ed.), Bande armate, banditi, banditismo e repressione di giustizia negli stati europei di antico regime (Rome, 1986)

Davis, Robert C., 'The Police and the Pugni: Sport and Social Control in Early-Modern VeniceLink opens in a new window', Stanford Humanities Review 6.2 (1998)

Davis, Robert C., 'The Trouble with Bulls: The Cacce dei Tori in Early Modern VeniceLink opens in a new window', Histoire Sociale/Social History 29 (1996), 275-90

Davis, Robert C., The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice (New York, 1994)

Faggion, Lucien, 'Violence, Rites and Social Regulation in the Venetian Terra Firma in the Sixteenth Century', in Jonathan Davies (ed.), Aspects of Violence in Renaissance EuropeLink opens in a new window (Farnham, 2013), pp. 185-204.

Ferraro, Joanne M., Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (New York. 2001)

Fortini Brown, Patricia, The Venetian Bride : Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and Its EmpireLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 2021)

Gioia, Cristina, 'Aristocratic Bandits and Outlaws: Stories of Violence and Blood Vendetta on the Border of the Venetian Republic (16th-17th Century)Link opens in a new window', in Steven G. Ellis and Lud’a Klusáková (eds), Imaging Frontiers, Contesting Identities (Pisa, 2007), pp. 93-107.

Judde de Larivière, Claire, The Revolt of the Snowballs: Murano confronts Venice, 1511, translated by Thomas V. Cohen (New York and London, 2018) [EBSCO e-book]

Medici, Lorenzino de', Apology for a Murder, foreword by Tim Parks, trans. Andrew Brown (London, 2004) [Read the foreword and the account of Francesco Bibboni of his murder of Lorenzino de' Medici]

Muir, Edward, Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance (Baltimore, 1993) "Reader's edition"Link opens in a new window

Muir, Edward, 'The Modern Legacy of a Renaissance Feud: 1511 and 1945Link opens in a new window', Acta Histriae 27/4 (2019), 545-560.

O’Connell, Monique, 'The Sexual Politics of Empire: Civic Honor and Official Crime outside Renaissance VeniceLink opens in a new window', Journal of Early Modern History 15/4 (2011), 331-48

Povolo, Claudio, L'intrigo dell'onore : poteri e istituzioni nella Repubblica di Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento (Verona, 1997)

Povolo, Claudio, 'Liturgies of Violence: Social Control and Power Relationships in the Republic of Venice between the 16th and 18th Centuries', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797(Leiden, 2013), pp. 513-42. Brill e-book

Romano, Dennis, 'The Limits of Kinship: Family, Politics, Vendetta and the State in Fifteenth-Century Venice', in Michael Knapton, John E. Law, Alison A. Smith (eds), Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin Kohl (Florence, 2014), pp.87-102

Ruggiero, Guido, ‘The Cooperation of Physicians and the State in the Control of Violence in Renaissance Venice’Link opens in a new window, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 33.2 (1978), 156-66. Oxford Journals

Ruggiero, Guido, ‘Law and Punishment in Early Renaissance Venice’Link opens in a new window, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 69 (1978), pp. 243-56.

Ruggiero, Guido, Violence in Early Renaissance Venice (New Brunswick, N.J., 1980)

Vidali, Andrew, 'When Peace is not Enough. Marco Michiel and the Council of Ten in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice: Shifting Judicial Paradigms and Noble ViolenceLink opens in a new window' Acta Histriae 31 (2023), 673-688