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Entangled Republican spaces in early modern Venice / edited by Giovanni Florio and Alessandro Metlica.
LIBRA N72.P6 E58 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contending representations ; 2.
- Dunamis
- Contending representations ; II
- Dunamis : studies in the empowerment of early-modern representations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Political aspects--Italy--Venice--History.
- Art.
- Art and state--Italy--Venice--History.
- Art and state.
- Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797.
- Venice (Italy).
- Venice (Italy)--History--697-1508.
- Venice (Italy)--Politics and government--1508-1797.
- Venice (Italy)--Politics and government--697-1508.
- Public spaces--Italy--Venice--History.
- Public spaces.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols [2024]
- Summary:
- "The volume addresses the issue of political celebration in early modern Venice. Dealing with processional orders and iconographic programs, historiographical narratives and urbanistic canons, stylistic features and diplomatic accounts, the interdisciplinary contributions gathered in these pages aim to question the performative effectiveness and the social consistency of the so called 'myth' of Venice: a system of symbols, beliefs and meanings offering a self-portrait of the ruling elite, the Venetian patriciate. In order to do so, the volume calls for a spatial turn in Venetian studies, blurring the boundaries between institutionalized and unofficial ceremonial spaces and considering their ongoing interaction in representing the rule of the Serenissima. The twelve chapters move from Palazzo Ducale to the Venetian streets and from the city of Venice to its dominions, thus widening considerably the range of social and political actors and audiences involved in the analysis. Such multifocal perspective allows us to challenge the very idea of a single 'myth' of Venice."-- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Civic Ritual and Popular Politics in the Republic of Venice / Giovanni Florio & Alessandro Metlica
- he Meeting of Sebastiano Ziani with Alexander III in the Great Council Hall: Staging, Viewing, and Understanding the Body Politic in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice / Giorgio Tagliaferro
- Representative Spaces of Republicanism: Constitutional Thinking, Virtue Politics, and Venice's Great Council Hall in Early Modern Europe / Monique O'Connell
- 'Una parola in piazza fa pi̮ male che dieci libri in un gabinetto': The Square as Political Space in Sixteenth Century Venice / Massimo Rospocher
- 'From the Clocke to the Shore': Thomas Coryat's 'Streets' of Piazza San Marco / Iseabail Rowe
- A Republic Becomes Divine: The Sacred Role of Topography in Venetian Civic Ritual / Evelyn Korsch
- Beyond the Ceremonial City: Music, Public Revelries, and Urban Spaces in Everyday Renaissance Venice / Umberto Cecchinato
- Power, Friendship, and Protection: Venetian Rectors in Verona Between the Sixteenth and the Seventeenth Centuries / Marco Bellabarba
- Celebrations of Venetian Terraferma's Rettori: From the Good Fama to its Subversion in the Public Ritual Sphere / Erika Carminati
- The Good Use of 'People' in Fifteenth-Century Venice: Reflections over a Controversial Term / Alfredo Viggiano
- Venice Beyond Venice: The Foreign Approach to Venetian Rituals, 1400-1600s / Matteo Casini.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-191).
- ISBN:
- 9782503605197
- 2503605192
- OCLC:
- 1417274495
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