Describing the city, describing the state : representations of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- A Note on the Book -- Introduction -- 1 Geographical Descriptions, the Myth of Venice, and the Venetian Terraferma -- 2 Placing Texts within Literary Contexts -- 3 Constructing a Mainland State -- 4 Outline of the Book -- Part 1 Perceptions of Veni...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Boston : Brill,
2020
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
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| Sujets: | Travelers' writings Renaissance Political geography Pilgrims and pilgrimages Renaissance-Italy-Venice Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (342 pages) |
| Résumé: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- A Note on the Book -- Introduction -- 1 Geographical Descriptions, the Myth of Venice, and the Venetian Terraferma -- 2 Placing Texts within Literary Contexts -- 3 Constructing a Mainland State -- 4 Outline of the Book -- Part 1 Perceptions of Venice in Its Urban Setting -- Chapter 1 Venice, Religious City -- 1 God's Role in the Foundation of Venice -- 2 Divine Protection throughout History -- 3 Connections to Saint Mark -- 4 External Religious Structures -- 5 The Piety of the Venetians -- Chapter 2 Venice, Centre of Material Culture -- 1 A City Situated 'in the Stormy Fury of the Sea' -- 2 Urban Structure -- 3 Wealth -- 4 Commerce -- 5 Industry -- 6 Art and Scholarship -- Chapter 3 Venice, Seat of an Ideal Government -- 1 The Development of a Political Narrative of Venice -- 2 Elements of a Political Venice -- 3 The Ideal of a Mixed Constitution -- 4 The Concept of Liberty -- 5 Politics and Morality -- Chapter 4 Venice, Morally Exemplary City -- 1 'It Presses Every Gathered Virtue to Its Bosom' -- 2 A Moral Venice from Its Foundation -- 3 Morality and Poetry -- Part 2 Perceptions of Venice and the Terraferma as a State -- Chapter 5 Venetian Views on Venice and the Terraferma as a State -- 1 Justifications for Mainland Expansion -- 2 The Conquest of Friuli -- 3 Links between Venice and the Terraferma -- 4 Political Affiliation as a Factor in the Depiction of Territories -- Chapter 6 Viewing the Venetian Mainland State from the Mainland -- 1 Two Poems Dedicated to Local Families -- 2 Ubertino Posculo's Oratio de laudibus Brixiae -- 3 Michele Savonarola's Praise of Padua -- 4 Silvestro Lando's Preface to the Statutes of Verona -- 5 A Paduan Pilgrim on His Way to the Holy Land -- 6 Four Poems by Bartolomeo Pagello -- 7 Jacopo Sanguinacci's Inchoronato regno sopra i regni. |
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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (342 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004428201 9004428208 9789004415904 9004415904 |