Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797
John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano
Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—history, art history, and musicology—these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice—that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves. |
Contents
Toward an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice 399
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39 |
The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian Society 12861323
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67 |
Andrea Dandolo and
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89 |
Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics?
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137 |
Venice and the Peace of Bologna 1530
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168 |
A Plot Discoverd? Myth Legend and the Spanish
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185 |
The Third Serrata
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263 |
The Material Culture of Venetian Elites
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295 |