Italian prisons : three profiles
Administration and bureaucracy
Punitive imprisonment : jurisprudence, legislation, and practice
Familiar order : the wards
Daily life : order and dissidence
The journey's end : death, escape, release
The prison as place and metaphor
Early imaginaries : martyrdom, monasticism, and purgation
Excursus : jail-breaking saints
From purgation to purgatory : God's great prison
This world and the next : the urban prison
Conclusion : "marginalizing" institutions, instituting marginality
Appendix 1: Prison inventory from Bologna, 1305
Appendix 2: Poems from the prison
Appendix 3: Le stinche, a reconstruction
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