Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance ItalyCharts changes in law, the structure and accessibility of the criminal courts, and the customs and mentalities that shaped women's lot, from infanticide to the control of sexual mores. These seven essays on women, sex, violence, and piety in Renaissance Italy, writes historian Samuel Cohn Jr., bespeak the darker side of the Renaissance and, in particular, the decline in Italian women's status from the late fourteenth century until the Counter