Venetians

Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781480448384

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The Venetians by Paul Strathern Pdf

A “useful and informative introduction” to the independent Republic of Venice—the first great economic and cultural power of the modern Western world (Booklist). After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic of Venice enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria, and West Africa. This golden period only drew to an end with the Republic’s eventual surrender to Napoleon. The Venetians illuminates the character of the Republic during these illustrious years by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history—Petrarch, Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Vivaldi, Casanova. Frequently, though, these emblems of the city found themselves at odds with the Venetian authorities, who prized stability above all else, and were notoriously suspicious of any “cult of personality.” Was this very tension perhaps the engine for the Republic’s unprecedented rise? Rich with biographies of some of the most exalted characters who have ever lived, The Venetians is a refreshing and authoritative new look at the history of the most evocative of city-states.

Author : Eric Dursteler
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801883245

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Venetians in Constantinople by Eric Dursteler Pdf

Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this relationship, he argues, coexistence and cooperation were more common. Moving beyond the "clash of civilizations" model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, Dursteler analyzes the lived reality by focusing on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople. While factors such as religion, culture, and political status could be integral elements in constructions of self and community, Dursteler finds early modern identity to be more than the sum total of its constitutent parts and reveals how the fluidity and malleability of identity in this time and place made coexistence among disparate cultures possible.

Author : Mrs. Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101064919150

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The Venetians A Novel by Mrs. Maxwell Pdf

Author : Francesca Bortolotto Possati,Jeremy Irons
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781614285380

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Venetian Chic by Francesca Bortolotto Possati,Jeremy Irons Pdf

Venetian art connoisseur, interior designer, and hotelier Francesca Bortolotto Possati knows the intricacies of Venice. To have her as a guide is to experience firsthand her passion for the private side of the mythic city whose daily visitors outnumber its population. Join her to visit artists’ studios, elegant Venetian friends, and palaces’ secrets. Everywhere one wanders, a sense of history saturates the buildings and landscapes, harking back to the artists of the Renaissance and the chic masquerade balls of centuries past.The discerning eye of photographer Robyn Lea makes this book a revelation of the Venice of dreams, which will surely allow readers to see this iconic destination through new eyes.A sentimental foreword by Jeremy Irons perfectly complements this stunning volume.

Author : Luigi Andrea Berto
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biographie, Sozialgeschichte
ISBN : 2503541011

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In Search of the First Venetians by Luigi Andrea Berto Pdf

This prosopographical study provides information about each Venetian living in the early Middle Ages, from the invasion of the Lombards in 569 - an action that forced part of the North-East Italy's population to seek refuge in the islands of the Venetian lagoon - to the rule of Duke Petrus Ursoylus II (991-1008). There is an entry for each individual listing all available information and quoting the full text of primary sources within the footnotes. The data are organized in categories such as families, first names, rulers, women, office holders, ecclesiastics, occupations, and places of residence (Venice was a duchy with different urban centers). Venice is an extremely important place for this kind of analysis. It is the area in which family name use began for the first time in medieval Europe. Venice was never conquered by a 'Germanic' people, and therefore it is possible to study the evolution of a post-Roman/Byzantine society by analyzing the names of the Venetians. Moreover, scholars interested in later periods will be able to find the origins of all the most important Venetian families.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004252523

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A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 by Anonim Pdf

The field of Venetian studies has experienced a significant expansion in recent years, and the Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume overview of the most recent developments. It is organized thematically and covers a range of topics including political culture, economy, religion, gender, art, literature, music, and the environment. Each chapter provides a broad but comprehensive historical and historiographical overview of the current state and future directions of research. The Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 represents a new point of reference for the next generation of students of early modern Venetian studies, as well as more broadly for scholars working on all aspects of the early modern world. Contributors are Alfredo Viggiano, Benjamin Arbel, Michael Knapton, Claudio Povolo, Luciano Pezzolo, Anna Bellavitis, Anne Schutte, Guido Ruggiero, Benjamin Ravid, Silvana Seidel Menchi, Cecilia Cristellon, David D’Andrea, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Wolfgang Wolters, Dulcia Meijers, Massimo Favilla, Ruggero Rugolo, Deborah Howard, Linda Carroll, Jonathan Glixon, Paul Grendler, Edward Muir, William Eamon, Edoardo Demo, Margaret King, Mario Infelise, Margaret Rosenthal and Ronnie Ferguson.

Author : Renard Gluzman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004398177

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Venetian Shipping from the Days of Glory to Decline, 1453–1571 by Renard Gluzman Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive picture of Venice’s shipping industry from the days of glory to its definitive decline, challenging the accepted hierarchy of the political, economic, and environmental factors impacting the history of the maritime republic.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : IND:30000129328617

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Venetian Life by William Dean Howells Pdf

Author : William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Venice (Italy)
ISBN : UOM:39015063830825

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History of the Venetian Republic by William Carew Hazlitt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000113718

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Sketches from Venetian History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lidia Sciama
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782386148

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A Venetian Island by Lidia Sciama Pdf

Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a common culture and establish a sense of continuity with "truly Venetian traditions." Based on ethnographic and archival data, this in-depth study of the Venetian island of Burano shows how its inhabitants develop their sense of a distinct identity on the basis of their notions of gender, honor and kinship relations, their common memories, their knowledge and love of their environment and their special skills in fishing and lace making.

Author : Toto Bergamo Rossi
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847867387

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Venetian Heritage by Toto Bergamo Rossi Pdf

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Venetian Heritage--whose mission is to safeguard Venetian cultural legacy as manifested in architecture, music, and fine art--this stunning volume highlights the organization's work in restoring, preserving, and promoting the cultural heritage of Venice. This book showcases the most impressive restoration projects of the last twenty years, from the eighteenth-century façade of the Church of Jesuits and early-Renaissance façade of the Church of San Zaccaria in Venice, to the Chapel of the Blessed Giovanni Orsini and the Romanesque portal of the Cathedral of Saint Lawrence in Croatia. Beautifully photographed in breathtaking detail, this volume tells the story of the crucial role that Venetian Heritage has in preserving the art of Venice both in Italy and in the areas once part of the Republic of Venice.

Author : W. Carew Hazlitt
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781537810881

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History of the Venetian Republic by W. Carew Hazlitt Pdf

The ancient Italian province of Venetia is of interest to us in the present inquiry as the source to which the first Venetians looked as the home of their fathers or of their own youth. It was a region of Northern Italy, which extended from the foot of the Alps to the Adriatic Sea; but its boundaries seem to have undergone changes. After its subjugation by the Romans, Venetia was considered as forming part of Cisalpine Gaul. The people are described as a commercial, rather than a warlike, community; and it is a curious circumstance that they displayed in their dress, like their insular descendants, a predilection for black...

Author : Dennis Romano
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421431468

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Patricians and Popolani by Dennis Romano Pdf

Originally published in 1987. Since Machiavelli, historians and political theorists have sought the sources of the stability that earned for Venice the appellation La Serenissima, the Most Serene Republic. In Patricians and Popolani, Dennis Romano looks to the private lives of early Renaissance Venetians for an explanation. Fourteenth-century Venice escaped the tumultuous upheavals of the other Italian city-republics, Romano contends, because the patricians and common people of the city did not divide sharply along class or factional lines in their personal associations. Rather, Venetians of the era moved in a variety of intersecting social networks that were shaped and influenced by an overriding sense of civic community. Drawing on the private archives of Venice—notarial registers, collections of testaments, and records of estates maintained by the procurators of San Marco—Romano analyzes the primary social bonds in the lives of the city's inhabitants. In separate chapters, Patricians and Popolani examines the forms of association in everyday Venetian life: marriage and family structure; artisan workshops and relations among tradesmen; the role of the parish clergy and the "sacred networks" that formed around convents, hospitals, and confraternities; and neighborhood and patron–client ties. By the beginning of the fifteenth century, Romano argues, all these networks of association had been transformed as a new hierarchical spirit took hold and overwhelmed the older, more freewheeling tendencies of Venetian society. The old sense of community yielded to a new and equally compelling sense of place, and La Serenissima remained stable throughout the later Renaissance.

Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107150874

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The Venetian Discovery of America by Elizabeth Horodowich Pdf

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.