Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797
ISBN-10
0801876443
ISBN-13
9780801876448
Category
History
Pages
752
Language
English
Published
2003-05-01
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Authors
Dennis Romano, John Jeffries Martin

Description

This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is “likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography” (The Historical Journal). 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.

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