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 realt…
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 realt…
'Ephemeral City' explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance. It offers the first view of one of the city's most productive and creative industries from the bottom up and a new and unexpected vision of Renaissance culture…
Introduction: Dante between "words" and "things"--Part I: Florentine legacies and Venetian initiatives, 1481-1540 -- 1 Reading and refashioning the Comedy, 1484-1536 -- 2 Dante's verse, the De vulgari eloquentia, and the Convivio: editions and critical estimates, 1490-1532 -- Pa…
Art, faith and medicine in Tintoretto's Venice
Bodies in ecstasy, bodies in tortuous pain, bodies devoid of life and bodies rising to the afterlife: the subject of the human is central to the work Tintoretto (1519-94) accomplished at the Scuola Grande di San Marco, home to the monumental library and medical museum of Venice'…
Art, faith and medicine in Tintoretto's Venice
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 established new communal and social networks, and follows their transition from outsiders to insid…
"Explores the emergence of a body of texts about relics transported from Constantinople to the West as a after the Fourth Crusade, and the role of these texts in the development of Venice's civic identity in the thirteenth century"
"Explores the emergence of a body of texts about relics transported from Constantinople to the West as a after the Fourth Crusade, and the role of these texts in the development of Venice's civic identity in the thirteenth century."
"Explores the emergence of a body of texts about relics transported from Constantinople to the West as a after the Fourth Crusade, and the role of these texts in the development of Venice's civic identity in the thirteenth century"--Provided by publisher.