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Cesarina Casanova, « Modelli di famiglie e ruoli di genere nella Bologna del secondo Seicento », Publications de l'École Française de Rome (documents), ID : 10670/1.q266o5
In the Early Modern Age, the Torrone, the Court of criminal justice which was established by the Pope in Bologna, went on administering justice since 1530 to 1796. On average, each year were sent 3000/4000 charges to the Court of criminal justice and 400/600 of them were brought to trial. The Archives of the Torrone are the widest among the surviving Italian criminal archives of Early Modern Age ; there are about 10.000 registers where are recorded over 1.000.000 charges and 120.000 trials. They are suitable to restore lives histories, to dispel social behaviours, to pin down women's identity in the lower ranks, to output gender relationships. Especially, when come before the court almost all women introduce themselves as self-governing and as workers ; equally, they often admit to be in breach of laws and social rules in love affairs. Above all, men's and women's behaviour don't keep up the uprightness in family and gender relationships.