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Exhibition guide to torture instruments from Medieval to Industrial era

Exhibition guide to torture instruments from Medieval to Industrial era

Original title : Torture Catalogo strumenti di tortura Tortures instruments

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Bilingual exhibition catalog (Italian/English) presenting torture instruments from the Middle Ages to the Industrial era, shown in various Italian cities in 1983-84. Documents periods, locations, technical execution methods, sentencing motivations and crimes punished (including petty theft, alleged heresy, homosexuality, etc.). Publisher: Qua d'Arno, Florence, 1983. Format: 22.5 x 24 cm, 128 pages with 158 black and white illustrations sourced from…

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Bilingual exhibition catalog (Italian/English) presenting torture instruments from the Middle Ages to the Industrial era, shown in various Italian cities in 1983-84. Documents periods, locations, technical execution methods, sentencing motivations and crimes punished (including petty theft, alleged heresy, homosexuality, etc.). Publisher: Qua d'Arno, Florence, 1983. Format: 22.5 x 24 cm, 128 pages with 158 black and white illustrations sourced from antique prints, Goya works, and photographs of authentic torture instruments. Illustrated color cover. Photography by Marcello Bertoni. Bilingual text in Italian and English.

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