A study of Florentine criminal justice under the reign of the first three Medici grand dukes.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The bureaucratic structure of the Otto: the personnel and their functions; 2. Financing the Otto; 3. The Otto as police: organization and function; 4. Criminal procedure before the Otto: from discovery to sentencing; 5. The Otto and its role in the centralization of criminal justice in the Florentine state; 6. Crime and criminals; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.