Entangled Republican spaces in early modern Venice /

"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 page...

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Other Authors: Florio, Giovanni (Editor), Metlica, Alessandro, 1985- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols [2024]
Series:Contending representations ; 2.
Dunamis.
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Table of 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 pì® 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.