Some Considerations on Corruption, Politics and Society in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Italy

Abstract

Research on the history of corruption in sixteenth and seventeenth century Italy is still in its infancy. In spite of the publication of some studies during the last decades, bibliography on the subject remains scattered, fragmentary, and often allusive. A work of synthesis is therefore difficult, and probably premature. Consequently, the ambitions of this chapter have to be strictly limited.