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Warfare and Politics : Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice / Humfrey Butters, Gabriele Neher.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Renaissance history, art and culture ; 3.
- Renaissance History, Art and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italy--History--1492-1559.
- Italy.
- Italy--History--1268-1492.
- Italy--Politics and government--1268-1559.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This volume brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance. The essays cover a remarkably broad geographical and topical range as they analyse the economic, military, political, and diplomatic history of Florence, Rome, Venice, and the Italian peninsula in general through the Renaissance and early modern period.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Warfare and Politics, Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice / Butters, Humfrey / Neher, Gabriele
- I. Prologue
- Historians and the Renaissance State / Butters, Humfrey
- II. Warfare: Politics and Battles, Fighters and Civilians, Narration and Analysis
- War and Beatitude / Mueller, Reinhold C.
- Patriots and Partisans / Pepper, Simon
- Picturing the News in Wartime Venice / Stermole, Krystina
- Fabrizio Colonna and Machiavelli's Art of War / Najemy, John M.
- A Clash of Dukes / Arfaioli, Maurizio
- III. Political Language and Careers, Urban Identity and Transformation, the Physical Environment
- Popular Ideology in Communal Italy / Ricciardelli, Fabrizio
- Venetian Gothic / Goy, Richard
- Marin Sanudo on Brescia / Neher, Gabriele
- Bodies Politic / Crawshaw, Jane Stevens
- The Price of Charles V's Protection in Italy / Shaw, Christine
- Odious Comparisons / Butters, Suzanne B.
- IV. Epilogue
- Renaissance Cities through Ruskinian Eyes / Fletcher, Stella
- Bibliography of Michael Edward Mallett (1932-2008) / Butters, Humfrey / Butters, Suzanne B.
- Index of Names
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-003-70940-0
- 90-485-2513-6
- 9781003709404
- OCLC:
- 1178543278
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