Nan A. Talese, 2010. — 416 p.
ISBN: 0385531524.
Even during the dominance of the Roman Empire, Venice and Venetians were regarded as distinct by their neighbors. They spoke Latin, and later Italian, in an unusual dialect. Their geographic position as an island in a lagoon contributed to their fierce spirit of independence, but it also positioned them to control trade routes to...
Venezia: Premiate officine grafiche C. Ferrari, 1919. — 200 p. Prefazione. Sopra i boschi. Il Canal d’Arco e la Cava Zuccar. Della Laguna. La Brenta dal 1324 al 1424. Indice alfabetico. Indice delle tavole.
Brill, 2017. — 389 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 7). This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fields of representation from painting, sculpture, print, and performance to classified correspondence. Dismemberment and...
Routledge, 2022. — 304 p. Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians, but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe. The organization, evolution and purpose of apprenticeship in Southern Europe are much less studied, especially for the early modern...
Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2001. — 416 p. Jusqu'à présent, les historiens de Venise se sont intéressés au groupe des cittadini en raison de la place tenue par les "citoyens originaires" dans la bureaucratie de la République. On se propose ici de dépasser cette image incomplète et schématique d'une noblesse de robe pour saisir, à l'aide de sources émanant...
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. — XIV, 233 p. This volume discusses the commerce of music and its connection to the printing and publishing industry in mid-sixteenth century Venice. Music printers occupied a unique niche in the Renaissance printing world because their product appealed to those with sophisticated taste and was not readable by the entire literate...
Routledge, 2020. — 174 p. Early Medieval Venice examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. From the periphery of the Byzantine Empire, Venice acquired complete independence and emerged as the major power in the Adriatic area. It also avoided absorption by neighbouring rulers, prevented serious destruction by...
Routledge, 2020. — 174 p. Early Medieval Venice examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. From the periphery of the Byzantine Empire, Venice acquired complete independence and emerged as the major power in the Adriatic area. It also avoided absorption by neighbouring rulers, prevented serious destruction by...
Brepols Publishers, 2014. — 372 p. — (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 41). 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...
Viella, 2022. — 389 p. Questo volume ricostruisce l’alternarsi delle diverse istituzioni politiche che hanno interessato i territori delle Venezie, dall’antichità fino ai giorni nostri. Resta così definito uno spazio macroregionale dai confini certo mutevoli, di quelle Venetiae che papa Gregorio Magno riconobbe già alla fine del VI secolo come un ambito omogeneo e che si...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 352 p. This volume explores Venice - not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. The book looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernisation, the two world wars, and the far-reaching oppressions of the Fascist...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 353 p. In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching...
Hakluyt Society, 2022. — 514 p. English Travellers to Venice 1450 –1600 contains 35 separate accounts (with 27 colour and 45 black and white illustrations) of the experiences of a wide range of English travellers to Venice. These accounts, drawn from contemporary manuscript and printed sources, provide vivid impressions of the challenges and hardships endured by visitors to the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 448 p. A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful Venetian...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 448 p. A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful Venetian...
Brepols Publishers, 2016. — 270 p. People have always immigrated in search of better working and living conditions, to escape persecution, reconnect with family, or simply for the experience. This volume traces the history of Venice’s Greek population during the formative years between 1498 and 1600 when thousands left their homelands for Venice. It describes how Greeks...
Charles River Editors, 2019. — 78 p. The mystical floating city of Venice has inspired awe for generations, and it continues to be one of the most visited European cities for good reason. Tourists are drawn to the stunning blend of classical, Gothic, and Renaissance-inspired architecture across the picturesque towns and villages, the charming open-air markets, the mouthwatering...
Brill, 2020. — 516 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 122). This book investigates perceptions, modes, and techniques of Venetian rule in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1700) between colonial empire, negotiated and pragmatic rule; between soft touch and exploitation; in contexts of former and continuous imperial belongings; and with a focus on representations and...
Edited by Filippo Sabetti. — University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 200 p. At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to help...
McFarland Company, 2015. — 244 p. The Renaissance was a revolution of ideas, arts and sciences alike, with Italy at its center. Venice was among the first states to embrace new concepts in fortification, which would dominate military architecture for centuries. In the age of large galley fleets and an expanding Ottoman Empire, the mighty defenses of the Republic of Venice...
Torino: UTET, 1992. — 766 p. — (Storia d'Italia 12/2). Nella prefazione al primo volume di questa Storia della Repubblica di Venezia, uscito nell’autunno del 1986, io scrivevo che la gran parte del secondo volume sarebbe stata opera di Michael Knapton e di Giovanni Scarabello, e che io mi riserbavo di trattare solo «la parte politico-religiosa dall’inizio del Cinquecento...
Torino: UTET, 1986. — 424 p. — (Storia d'Italia 12/1). Книга рассматривает активное военное и политическое участие Венецианской Республики в Итальянских войнах 1494-1559. Авторы книги также детально исследуют участие Венеции в одном из эпизодов этих войне - Урбинском конфликте (в 1517). По окончании войны Камбрейской лиги Франческо Мария I делла Ровере решил воспользоваться...
Penn State University Press. 2019. — 228 p. From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as dotted with actual and imaginary green spaces. This volume examines how and why this pastoral vision of Venice developed. Drawing on a variety of primary sources...
Albin Michel, 2015. — 1116 p. À Venise, le niveau des eaux s'élève inéluctablement, ronge les pilotis qui soutiennent les palais, érode les rives. De pharaoniques travaux sont entrepris pour empêcher que l'eau s'engouffre dans la lagune et inonde toujours plus les rues et les maisons. Cette ville à présent fragile fut pourtant triomphante hier, et ce livre raconte l';histoire...
London: Faber and Faber, 2011. — 405 p. — ISBN: 978–0–571–27923–4. A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empire...
Brill Academic, 2008. — 377 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 79). The convoys of public galleys, the typical form of Venetian medieval sea-faring, had disappeared gradually by the time of the battle of Lepanto (1571). This disappearance was not the sign of a general economic crisis, but was nevertheless the corollary of important political, economic and social changes which...
Feltrinelli, 2012. — 465 p. Un canonico e un abate imprigionati nel 1606 per reati comuni; l'interdetto lanciato da papa Paolo V contro la repubblica di Venezia e la proibizione di messe e sacramenti in tutto lo stato; una "guerra di scritture" firmate da autori illustri (come Paolo Sarpi) o oscuri, spesso nascosti da pseudonimi fantasiosi. Questa vicenda famosa viene qui...
Venetia: Sumptibus societatis, 1880. — 356 p. Viris rerum medii aevi peritioribus et qui imprimis studia de passagiis in Terram Sanctam atque qui inde provenerint motus per orbem gravissimi, constanti diligentia ac digna rebus consideratione persecuti sunt, iidem cognitum habentes, quas et quales partes per illius aevi spatia egerit res publica Venetorum terra marique, tam in...
Brill, 2013. — xxii+970 p. — (Brill's Companions to European History 4). — ISBN 9004252517. 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...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. — 310 p. 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...
Zagreb, 2009. — 297 p. Epistolae et communicationes rectorum Dalmatiae et Albaniae Venetae / Pisma i poruke rektora Dalmacije i Mletačke Albanije naslov je serije u kojoj će se u sastavu edicije "Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium" u više zasebnih knjiga sustavno objavljivati arhivski spisi iz Državnog arhiva u Mlecima (Archivio di Stato di Venezia) koji se...
Zagreb, 2012. — 301 p. U ovome, drugom, svesku priređeni su istovrsni spisi predstavnika mletačke vlasti u dalmatinskim gradovima, odnosno komunama, Korčuli, Braču, Omišu, Makarskoj i Klisu. Riječ je o područjima koja su tijekom povijesti imala različitu sudbinu i nejednake etape uključenosti u sastav mletačkih prekomorskih stečevina te će se ta činjenica u nemaloj mjeri...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 232 p. Piazza San Marco is a dynamic open space organically historical connected to the buildings which frame it. It shows how much is lost if the ensemble is divided into the individual structures of Doges' Palace, Basilica of San Marco, Campanile and so on, each 'marvellous' in their own right but functionally separate. Here a different story is...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 240 p. Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 310 p. This book is a sweeping historical portrait of the floating city of Venice from its foundations to the present day. Joanne M. Ferraro considers Venice's unique construction within an amphibious environment and identifies the Asian, European, and North African exchange networks that made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse Mediterranean...
Brepols, 2024. — 192 p. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 433 p. Against the backdrop of England's emergence as a major economic power, the development of early modern capitalism in general and the transformation of the Mediterranean, Maria Fusaro presents a new perspective on the onset of Venetian decline. Examining the significant commercial relationship between these two European empires during the...
Brill, 2021. — 564 p. — (Brill's Studies in Maritime History 10). Drawing from a broad range of hitherto unpublished archival material and the reconstructed biographies of hundreds of San Marco ships, this book provides a critical overview of the Republic’s shipping activities contemporary with the major geographical discoveries of the period, the ascendency of the Ottoman...
Jovian Press, 2017. — 489 p. 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...
Little, Brown Book Group, 2013. — 320 p. In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West. She explores the often overlooked role of...
Routledge, 2017. — 175 p. Visualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times within history. Written by those behind the Visualizing Venice project, this book explores the variety of disciplines and analytical methods generated by technologies such as 3D images and interoperable models,...
Duke University Press, 2024. — 458 p. Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a bird’s-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an international hub of trade, art, and culture. An artistic and cartographic masterpiece of the Renaissance, the View depicts Venice as a vibrant, waterborne city interconnected by canals and bridges and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 312 p. This book focuses on the identity and public personae of the dogaressa, wives of the elected doges of medieval and early modern Venice. The study traces the evolution of the public functions of the group of quasi-royal wives, rare for their visibility, during Venice's development into a regional economic and political power. Holly S. Hurlburt...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 260 p. This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows that the Roman poet Virgil played an unexpectedly significant role in the shaping of Renaissance Venetian culture. Drawing on reception theory and the sociology of literature, it argues that Virgil's poetry became a best-seller because it sometimes challenged, but...
Apollo, 2022. — 495 p. A stunningly illustrated history of Venice, from its beginnings as 'La Serenissima' - 'the Most Serene Republic' - to the Italian city that continues to enchant visitors today. 'Everything about Venice,' observed Lord Byron, 'is, or was, extraordinary - her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance.' Dream and romance have conditioned...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 548 p. In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the Venetian patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made Italian humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of their class and of the city itself. Originally published in 1986.
Einaudi, 1983. — 346 p. Due rivoluzioni nautiche sono al centro di questi saggi. La prima si sviluppa attorno al 1300 grazie all'introduzione della bussola, delle carte marittime e delle nuove nuove imbarcazioni chiamate cocche. La seconda, e più nota, fu quella che ebbe il suo culmine nella conquista degli oceani: fu la nuova tecnologia a indicare la strada delle scoperte. I...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. — 707 p. Originally published in 1985. Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller, in the first volume of Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, discuss Venice's economic achievement in terms of the complex system the city's inhabitants developed to manage moneys of account and coins. Money merchants of Venice developed a system...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. — 526 p. Frederic C. Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully illustrated general history of Venice from the origins to the beginning of decline....
Routledge, 2018. — 177 p. The Revolt of Snowballs unpicks a rare and turbulent event which occurred in 1511 and investigates the meaning behind it. On January 27, 1511, the island of Murano was the scene of an exceptional event during which the representative of Venice, exercising power in the island on behalf of the Serenissima, was hunted by the inhabitants under a shower of...
Routledge, 2018. — 177 p. The Revolt of Snowballs unpicks a rare and turbulent event which occurred in 1511 and investigates the meaning behind it. On January 27, 1511, the island of Murano was the scene of an exceptional event during which the representative of Venice, exercising power in the island on behalf of the Serenissima, was hunted by the inhabitants under a shower of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 304 p. Rena N. Lauer shows how Crete's Jews turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system to address matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as murder. In the process, Lauer contends, Venetian Jews grew more open and flexible, experiencing little of the anti-Judaism common in...
Random House, 2011. — 96 p. In a city as ancient as Venice, myths and legends passed down from generation to generation are the storehouse of a city’s mores, emblems of its identity. In Venetian Curiosities, acclaimed novelist Donna Leon recounts some of Venice’s most intriguing tales: an elephant brought in for Carnival wreaks havoc upon the city before seeking refuge in a...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 490 p. This study re-examines Venice's political economy from the viewpoint of its ordinary people orpopolani who, despite the commonly held view that they were excluded from political life by the nobility ornobili, actually organized and ran for themselves hundreds of corporations within the city-state. Mercy was central to thispopolani's...
Viking Adult, 2012. — 374 p. An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur. Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an...
Viking Adult, 2012. — 374 p. An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur. Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an...
Viking Adult, 2012. — 374 p. An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur. Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 320 p. Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Venice transformed itself from a struggling merchant commune to a powerful maritime empire that would shape events in the Mediterranean for the next four hundred years. In this magisterial new book on medieval Venice, Thomas F. Madden traces the city-state's extraordinary rise through the...
Cornell University Press, 2018. — 231 p. Maglaque elaborates an intellectual history of Venice’s Mediterranean empire by examining how Venetian humanist education related to the task of governing. Taking that relationship as her cue, Maglaque unearths an intimate view of the emotions and subjectivities of imperial governors. In their writings, it was the affective relationships...
Laterza and Figli, 2019. — 280 p. Venezia è nel 1499 una grande potenza europea. Solo dieci anni dopo – sconfitta militarmente e politicamente dalla Lega di Cambrai – è una sopravvissuta. Con quell’inizio Cinquecento si sgretola il suo dominio e inizia una decadenza dorata che durerà ben tre secoli: uno stato tanto ricco e potente poteva deteriorarsi solo con una magnificente...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 544 pages. — ISBN: 9780521248426
This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured in terms of the composition, control and cost of armies. Above all, it redresses the imbalance whereby...
Routledge, 2023. — 256 р. The papers reprinted in this volume focus on the extraordinary and multifaceted relationship between two Christian States: the Republic of Venice and the Island Order State on Hospitaller Malta between 1530 and the late 1790s. It was marked by three distinct phenomena – military cooperation along with other Western allies against the Ottoman Empire;...
Routledge, 2023. — 244 p. The papers reprinted in this volume focus on the extraordinary and multifaceted relationship between two Christian States: the Republic of Venice and the Island Order State on Hospitaller Malta between 1530 and the late 1790s. It was marked by three distinct phenomena – military cooperation along with other Western allies against the Ottoman Empire;...
The John Hopkins University, 2002. — 561 p. 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...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. — 288 p. From 1211 until its loss to the Ottomans in 1669, the Greek island we know as Crete was the Venetian colony of Candia. Ruled by a paid civil service fully accountable to the Venetian Senate, Candia was distinct from nearly every other colony of the medieval period for the unprecedented degree to which the colonial power was...
University of Chicago Press, 1974. — 334 p. In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during the period 1081–1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late medieval and early modern period, McNeill explores...
Brill, 2022. — 266 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 134). Debate within the Venetian Senate at turn of the fifteenth century has long been opaque, as only an elite few were allowed access to Senate proceedings, their participation bound to secrecy. This volume offers a new interpretation of scribal intent, enabling hidden aspects of those discussions to come to light. By using...
Penguin Books, 1990. — 208 p. For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians 'held the gorgeous east in fee'. Jan Morris reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in...
Giunti Editore, 2007. — 698 p. Si tratta di un testo fondamentale per quanto riguarda la storia dei Dogi veneziani. Scritto da Andrea da Mosto ovvero da colui che negli anni '30 da direttore riorganizzò l'Archivio di Stato di Venezia é un libro "obbligatorio" per tutti gli studiosi ed appassionati della Serenissima. Peccato che contiene una sola illustrazione.
Helion and Company, 2018. — 288 p. A considerable part of the military history of the 17th century is dominated by the conflict between the Christian powers and the Ottoman Empire. Much has been written about the politics and the campaigns that led to the siege of Vienna in 1683 and the defeat suffered by the Sultan's armies, while, until today, there are relatively few studies...
Vintage, 1989. — 673 p. Traces the rise of great trade Venetian Empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand year-old Republic. 32 pages of black and white photos, 4 maps and charts.
Vintage Books, 2007. — 368 p. John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice has been dubbed "indispensable" by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice's highs and lows, from its ignominious capture by Napoleon in 1797 to the dawn of the 20th...
Little Brown Book Group, 2017. — 432 p. Henry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it, whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back knobbed with domes, it seems like a vast, warty bug taking a meditative walk'. Reactions to Venice have been, throughout the ages, astonishingly different....
The John Hopkins University Press, 2009. — 264 p. The city-state of Venice, with a population of less than 100,000, dominated a fragmented and fragile empire at the boundary between East and West, between Latin Christian, Greek Orthodox, and Muslim worlds. In this institutional and administrative history, Monique O'Connell explains the structures, processes, practices, and laws by...
The John Hopkins University Press, 2009. — 264 p. The city-state of Venice, with a population of less than 100,000, dominated a fragmented and fragile empire at the boundary between East and West, between Latin Christian, Greek Orthodox, and Muslim worlds. In this institutional and administrative history, Monique O'Connell explains the structures, processes, practices, and laws...
Routledge, 2017. — 250 p. Early-modern Venice is predominantly remembered as a maritime power, yet historians have become increasingly interested in its political and military aspirations within the Italian mainland. Adding to the growing literature on this subject, Giulio Ongaro’s book addresses the practical management of the Venetian military apparatus in this period....
Viella, 2010. — 291 p. Il matrimonio medievale è stato considerato a lungo come un istituto sociale statico, quasi monolitico, soggetto ad una stretta disciplina da parte dei poteri costituiti, fossero essi la famiglia, la comunità, l'autorità pubblica o la chiesa. Solo di recente è maturata una consapevolezza diversa dell'istituzione, che ne ha colto gli aspetti di movimento e...
Il Mulino, 2014. — 216 p. "Strano posto senza terra, dove non si ara, non si semina, non si vendemmia": così era riassunta la singolarità di Venezia nel IX secolo. Una città dove potere e ricchezza si misuravano solo sul mare. Con la rinascita dell'Europa e la ripresa dei commerci dopo il Mille, quei suoi tratti e il ruolo di cerniera con il Levante ne determinarono la fortuna....
Il Mulino, 2021. — 248 p. In una laguna disabitata e selvaggia, il 25 marzo 421 veniva fondata Venezia. Così si tramanda, ma è vero? No. A partire dalla favola di quella nascita, sino alla fine della Serenissima Repubblica, la grande cultura veneziana è sempre stata abilissima nel costruire la propria immagine di città e di stato in funzione delle mutevoli esigenze. Ortalli...
Dedalus, 2021. — 196 p. The identity of Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, is inseparable from the waters of the lagoon by which she is surrounded. Isabella Panfido takes us on an exploration of those waters that since time immemorial have been Venice’s refuge and defence, visiting some of its many islands (the names of a few - Fisolo, Sant’Arian, Lio Piccolo, San Secondo - will be...
Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2017. — 151 p. The aim of this book is to study the development of frontier and border relations between Christian and Muslim countries at the end of the Middle Ages and in the Modern Age. Few essays have been written about the Ottoman border in the Modern Age: when and how it was created, how it developed and which documents were produced to establish it....
Il Mulino, 2022. — 216 p. In un breve lasso di tempo fra tardo Medioevo e Rinascimento, Venezia aggregò un ragguardevole numero di città e di territori che andarono a costituire lo «Stado da Terra», compreso tra il Friuli, il Veneto e la Lombardia orientale: una parte d'Italia quanto mai prospera e invidiata, che la Serenissima riuscì a conservare superando crisi anche assai...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 412 p. What does writing Greek books mean at the height of the Cinquecento in Venice? The present volume provides fascinating insights into Greek-language book production at a time when printed books were already at a rather advanced stage of development with regards to requests, purchases and exchanges of books; copying and borrowing practices; relations...
Viella, 2013. — 368 p. La storiografia veneziana dell'età moderna e poi quella europea dell'Ottocento e Novecento hanno rappresentato per lo più il rapporto secolare tra Venezia e i turchi nel segno del conflitto di "civiltà" e di "fede", oltreché di interessi economico-politico-territoriali. La realtà storica, quale risulta da innumerevoli fonti archivistiche, cronachistiche,...
Harvard University Press, 1976. — 215 p. One of the oldest, most commanding topics in early modern economic history--Venice's fall from commercial supremacy to relative insignificance--is here examined. What emerges is what many scholars have come to suspect: the catch-all phrase "the decline of Venice" embodies a myth. Rapp explains the paradox of seventeenth-century Venice, a...
Laterza, 2017. — 162 p. Marino Falier è una delle figure più controverse nella storia dei dogi di Venezia. Nato verso il 1285 da una importante famiglia di antichissima origine, che annoverava già due dogi, percorse una lunga e brillante carriera al servizio della repubblica che lo portò a ricoprire in modo quasi incessante numerose e prestigiose cariche. Nel 1354, ormai...
Il Mulino, 2021. — 208 p. Come si vive a Venezia nel Medioevo? Al vertice dello stato è il doge, affiancato dai consigli per regolare ogni aspetto della società civile. Al di sotto, il mondo variegato e spesso brillante dei cittadini, nobili o plebei, la cui attività si può spesso ricostruire nei particolari grazie alla singolare ricchezza delle fonti. È quanto fa questo...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 800 p. A sweeping and comprehensive history of Venice - from its formation in the early Middle Ages to the present day - that traces its evolution as a city, city-state, regional power, and overseas empire. No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 800 p. A sweeping and comprehensive history of Venice - from its formation in the early Middle Ages to the present day - that traces its evolution as a city, city-state, regional power, and overseas empire. No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 352 p. In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontier, including colonial migrants, redeemed slaves, merchants, commercial brokers, religious converts, and diplomatic interpreters. In their sustained interactions across linguistic, religious, and...
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 240 p. Utilizing the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the 14th and 15th centuries. He argues that the use of such records reveals not only the nature of sexual behaviour that was considered criminal, but also what society established as the...
Brill, 2025. — x, 298 p. — (Later Medieval Europe 25). This volume offers a source-based analysis of the complex interactions between the Venetian administration of the coastal town Spalato (Split) and its hinterland under Venetian, Hungarian, and Ottoman rule. Employing a microhistorical approach, Sadovski studies the military importance, economic dynamics, and social changes...
Brill Academic, 2017. — 201 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 111). Venice and Its Neighbors from the 8th to 11th Century offers an account of the formation and character of early Venice, drawing on archaeological evidence from Venice and related sites, and written sources. The volume covers topics including: Venice’s role within the Byzantine exarchate of Ravenna during the 7th...
Belgrad: in typographia principatus Serbiae, 1860. — 548 p. Societas litteraria Serbica Belgradensis, inixe ad. tendens ad promovendum studium et augendam no titiam historiae patriae, omnia monumenta huc spectantia typis nondum vulgata, in suis periodicis scriptis sensim in lucem edere solet. Itaque ex maximo the sauro monumentorum historiae medii aevi, tabulario nempe...
Belgrad: in typographia principatus Serbiae, 1862. — 622 p. Societas litteraria Serbica Belgradensis, inixe ad. tendens ad promovendum studium et augendam no titiam historiae patriae, omnia monumenta huc spectantia typis nondum vulgata, in suis periodicis scriptis sensim in lucem edere solet. Itaque ex maximo the sauro monumentorum historiae medii aevi, tabulario nempe...
Pegasus Books, 2020. — 336 p. An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions - from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency - shaped modernity. How did a small, isolated city - with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday - come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the...
Plon, 2004. « Venise, elle, est la ville chérubinique par excellence : contemplation et compréhension du lointain, regard sans fin ramené sur soi après avoir bouclé la boucle, récollection et concentration des randonnées de la connaissance. C’est le visage dans la pierre voyant le temps dans ses fibres. Les franciscains séraphiques sont là aussi, bien sûr, mais Venise, comme...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 320 p. Weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies, this book shows how war and colonial expansion shaped seventeenth-century Venetian culture and society. Anastasia Stouraiti tests conventional assumptions about republicanism, commercial peace and cross-cultural exchange and offers a novel approach to the study of the...
Pegasus, 2013. — 368 p. A colorful new history of Venice that illuminates the character of the great city-state by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history—Petrarch, Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Vivaldi, and Casanova. The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the...
Brill, 2020. — x, 332 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 221). In Describing the City, Describing the State Sandra Toffolo presents a comprehensive analysis of descriptions of the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when the Venetian mainland state was being created. Working with an extensive variety of descriptions, the book...
New Word City, 2014. — 23 p. Here, in this short-form book from acclaimed Oxford historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, is the story of the Renaissance doge Francesco Foscari, who led the Republic of Venice longer than any other man. His ambition and taste for controversy and flamboyance led him to a tragic end.
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2018. — 125 p. In the time that goes from the 15th to the 18th century, the Ottoman Empire went through a series of transformations and a period of continuous territorial expansion that affected both the social and the economic life of the state itself, its historical trading partner Venice, as well as the once Venetian territories of Cyprus and Crete that...
Washington Square Press, 2002. — 416 p. Garry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial...
Stanford University Press, 2022. — 424 p. This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the cultural elaboration of an ideology of empire that was based on a civilizing mission toward the Slavs. The book argues that the Enlightenment within the “Adriatic Empire” of Venice was deeply concerned with exploring...
Hellenic Institute of Byzantine Studies, 1983. — 268 p. The island of Crete had formed part of the Byzantine Empire until 1204, when the Fourth Crusade dissolved the empire and divided its territories amongst the crusader leaders (see Frankokratia). Crete was initially allotted to Boniface of Montferrat, but, unable to enforce his control over the island, he soon sold his...
Brill, 2024. — 372 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 22). In this volume Giulia Zanon sheds new light on our grasp of social hierarchy and the possibilities for social mobility in pre-modern Italy. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines deep archival research with a multitude of artistic and architectural artefacts, this work...
Tempus Perrin, 2015. — 625 p. Une histoire grand public écrite par un Vénitien, à la fois journaliste, historien et homme de télévision, ancien président du Comité de sauvegarde de Venise. Qui, en rêvant devant les façades des palais vénitiens, n'a pas désiré percer le secret de ces murs et deviner les destins des familles patriciennes qui les ont habités au cours des siècles ?...
Neri Pozza, 2021. — 255 p. In milleseicento anni Venezia è divenuta una potenza europea temuta e riverita ben oltre le sue potenzialità militari. La sua vocazione marinara e commerciale da sola non è sufficiente a spiegare una tale longevità, superiore a quella dell’Antica Roma. Altre repubbliche marinare, italiane e del Nord Europa, conobbero uno splendore simile al suo ma per...
М.: Издательство Ольги Морозовой, 2012. — 532 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-98695-04-64. Пер. с англ. Валентина Кулагина-Ярцева, Наталья Кротовская, Г. Шульга. Серия: Мировой литературный и страноведческий бестселлер. Венеция. Прекрасный город. Вслед за захватывающей историей Лондона Питер Акройд написал книгу о Венеции. Вместе с ним из двухэтажного автобуса мы пересаживаемся в гондолу...
Пер. с англ. — Москва: Изд-во Ольги Морозовой, 2012. — 496 с. — ISBN 978-5-98695-04-64. Венеция. Прекрасный город. Вслед за захватывающей историей Лондона Питер Акройд написал книгу о Венеции. Вместе с ним из двухэтажного автобуса мы пересаживаемся в гондолу и совершаем путешествие по одному из самых загадочных и независимых городов Италии. Венецианцы не только говорят, но и...
Пер. с франц. Е. В. Морозовой. — М.: Весь Мир, 2002. — 97 с. — (Весь Мир Знаний). ISBN 5-7777-0214-7 Эта книга посвящена городу совершенно уникальному, воспетому в творчестве многих поколений поэтов, писателей, художников, зодчих, музыкантов. Но Венеция славна не только своей красотой и притягательностью для туристов. Прежде всего это город с необыкновенной судьбой. Заявивший о...
Пер. с франц. Е. В. Морозовой. – М.: Весь Мир, 2002. – 192 с. – (Весь Мир Знаний). ISBN: 5-7777-0214-7 Эта книга посвящена городу совершенно уникальному, воспетому в творчестве многих поколений поэтов, писателей, художников, зодчих, музыкантов. Но Венеция славна не только своей красотой и притягательностью для туристов. Прежде всего это город с необыкновенной судьбой. Заявивший...
Пер. с англ. П. Щербатюк. – М.: Эксмо; СПб.: Мидгapд, 2007. – 356 с. – (Биографии великих городов). ISBN 978-5-699-20921-7 (Эксмо) ISBN 5-91016-005-2 (Мидгард) Венеция – имя, ставшее символом изысканной красоты, интригующих тайн и сказочного волшебства. Много написано о ней, но каждый сам открывает для себя Венецию заново. Город, опрокинутый в отражение каналов, дворцы,...
Пер. с фр. Алексея Шестакова. — СПб.: Jaromír Hladík press, 2021. — 96 c. — ISBN 978-5-6047352-2-0. Венеция — хранительница своего грозного своевольного прошлого и прообраз нашего болезненного, многотиражного будущего. Французский философ, журналист и политик Режис Дебре (род. 1940) говорит о ней с раздражением и досадой. Впрочем, «Венеция», вызывающая эти чувства, — скорее не...
Casa Editrice Bonechi, 2012. — 168 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-88-476-2092-6. Город Венеция раскинулся на архипелаге маленьких островов, прорезанных густой сетью многочисленных каналов. Некоторые из них в разное время по прихоти природы или человека, меняли свои очертания, что не могло не сказаться на старинном облике города. Венеция находится в четырёх км от материка и в двух км от...
Пер. с лат., вступ. статья и коммент. М. А. Юсима; под ред. М. М. Крома, О. В. Хархордина. — СПб.: Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2013. — 234 с. — (RES PUBLICA. Вып. 7). — ISBN: 978-5-94380-138-9. Гаспаро Контарини (1487–1542), государственный деятель Венецианской республики и в последние годы своей жизни кардинал Католической церкви, получил...
Пер. с лат., вступ. статья и коммент. М. А. Юсима; под ред. М. М. Крома, О. В. Хархордина. — СПб.: Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2013. — 234 с. — (RES PUBLICA. Вып. 7). — ISBN: 978-5-94380-138-9. Гаспаро Контарини (1487–1542), государственный деятель Венецианской республики и в последние годы своей жизни кардинал Католической церкви, получил...
Переводчик: Л. А. Игоревский — Москва: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 607 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5256-5. Фредерик Лейн – авторитетный американский исследователь – посвятил свой труд истории Венеции с самого ее основания в VI веке. Это рассказ о взлете и падении одной из первых европейских империй – уникальной в своем роде благодаря особому местоположению....
Переводчик: Л. А. Игоревский — Москва: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 607 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5256-5. Фредерик Лейн – авторитетный американский исследователь – посвятил свой труд истории Венеции с самого ее основания в VI веке. Это рассказ о взлете и падении одной из первых европейских империй – уникальной в своем роде благодаря особому местоположению....
Переводчик: Л. А. Игоревский — Москва: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 607 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5256-5. Фредерик Лейн – авторитетный американский исследователь – посвятил свой труд истории Венеции с самого ее основания в VI веке. Это рассказ о взлете и падении одной из первых европейских империй – уникальной в своем роде благодаря особому местоположению....
М.: Астрель: Corpus, 2010. — 288 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-24660-9. Самый знаменитый венецианец всех времен — это, безусловно, интеллектуал и полиглот, дипломат и сочинитель, любимец женщин и тайный агент Джакомо Казанова. Его судьба неотделима от города, в котором он родился. Новая книга историка Сергея Нечаева — это рассказ об истории Венеции: достопримечательности и легенды этого...
М.: Астрель: Corpus, 2010. — 288 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-24660-9. Самый знаменитый венецианец всех времен — это, безусловно, интеллектуал и полиглот, дипломат и сочинитель, любимец женщин и тайный агент Джакомо Казанова. Его судьба неотделима от города, в котором он родился. Новая книга историка Сергея Нечаева — это рассказ об истории Венеции: достопримечательности и легенды этого...
М.: Астрель: Corpus, 2010. — 288 с. — ISBN: 978-5-271-24660-9. Самый знаменитый венецианец всех времен — это, безусловно, интеллектуал и полиглот, дипломат и сочинитель, любимец женщин и тайный агент Джакомо Казанова. Его судьба неотделима от города, в котором он родился. Новая книга историка Сергея Нечаева — это рассказ об истории Венеции: достопримечательности и легенды этого...
Пер. с англ. И. Летберг, Н. Омельянович, Ю. Федоренко. — М.: АСТ: АСТ Москва, 2010. — 345 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN 978-5-17-066060-5; ISBN 978-5-403-03478-4. «Царица морей» Венеция. Она прошла путь от беспредельного могущества и богатства – к упадку и разрушению. Роскошь, царившая в окружении дожей, поражала, а коварство властителей этого средневекового...
Пер. с англ. И. Летберг, Н. Омельянович, Ю. Федоренко. – М.: АСТ: АСТ Москва, 2010. – 898 с. – (Историческая библиотека). ISBN: 978-5-17-066060-5 (ООО «Изд-во АСТ») ISBN: 978-5-403-03478-4 (ООО Изд-во «АСТ Москва») «Царица морей» Венеция. Она прошла путь от беспредельного могущества и богатства – к упадку и разрушению. Роскошь, царившая в окружении дожей, поражала, а коварство...
Пер. с англ. И. Летберг, Н. Омельянович, Ю. Федоренко. — М.: АСТ: АСТ Москва, 2010. — 345 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN 978-5-17-066060-5; ISBN 978-5-403-03478-4. «Царица морей» Венеция. Она прошла путь от беспредельного могущества и богатства – к упадку и разрушению. Роскошь, царившая в окружении дожей, поражала, а коварство властителей этого средневекового...
Казань: Университетская типография, 1880. — 231 с. Магистерская диссертация Ивана Николаевича Смирнова (1856-1904), русского историка, ученика известного медиевиста Н. А. Осокина. В монографии исследовалась политика Венецианской республики по отношению к южнославянским городским общинам Адриатического побережья от падения Хорватского королевства в начале XII века до середины...
Саратов: Изд-во Саратовского университета, 1963. - 546 с.
В основу монографии легла докторская диссертация завкафедрой всеобщей истории Горьковского университета профессора Николая Петровича Соколова (1890-1979). В работе описывается ход превращения Венеции из городской аристократической республики св. Марка в империю Восточного Средиземноморья (конец X – первая половина XIII...
Москва: ОГИ, 2015. — 368 с. Книга венецианца Альберто Тозо Феи – это путеводитель по Венеции мифов и тайн. Она составлена из семи маршрутов по всем шести историческим районам-сестьерам Венеции, с указанием улиц и приложением подробных карт-схем. Однако «стержнем», на который нанизываются прогулки, выступает не история памятников архитектуры и стилей живописи, как в обычных...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2024. — 384 с. — ISBN 978-5-00165-882-5. Книга британского искусствоведа Деборы Ховард – незаменимый путеводитель по архитектурной истории Венеции, прослеживающий эволюцию ее строений от древности до наших дней. Впервые изданная на русском языке, ее работа представляет собой уникальное исследование, наполненное редкими, тщательно проанализированными сведениями, с...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2024. — 384 с. — ISBN 978-5-00165-882-5. Книга британского искусствоведа Деборы Ховард – незаменимый путеводитель по архитектурной истории Венеции, прослеживающий эволюцию ее строений от древности до наших дней. Впервые изданная на русском языке, ее работа представляет собой уникальное исследование, наполненное редкими, тщательно проанализированными сведениями, с...
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