A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797
xx contributors Alfredo Viggiano (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, 1990) is professor of his- tory at the Università di Padova. H ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The genesis of this project traces back to a passing conversation I had with Julian Deahl in early 2008 about t ...
xxii acknowledgements political history. He passed away unexpectedly in late 2009, a loss felt profoundly by his friends, family ...
INTRODUCTION A BRIef SURvey Of HISTORIeS Of veNICe eric R. Dursteler Introduction Why do we need another history of venice? Ther ...
2 eric r. dursteler composed primarily in Latin, with several notable french exceptions, and had been largely apologetic in char ...
introduction 3 title and Sabellico’s approach make clear, was deeply indebted to Livy’s history of Rome. The reputation of Sabel ...
4 eric r. dursteler Bembo’s Historiae has also suffered because of comparisons with his contemporary, Marin Sanudo, whose encycl ...
introduction 5 With only minimal interruption, the chain of official historians contin- ued until Pietro Garzoni’s ponderous Ist ...
6 eric r. dursteler marked by well-defined, impermeable social categories. Gino Benzoni’s summary judgment may be most accurate: ...
introduction 7 Daru developed a more nuanced, innovative, and historically rooted inter- pretation of venetian power. Influenced ...
8 eric r. dursteler by addressing systematically what he perceived as Daru’s most egregious errors of interpretation and documen ...
introduction 9 city’s archives, and in short order received several important academic appointments.21 Romanin’s expansive surve ...
10 eric r. dursteler of his contribution, he was memorialized with a bust by Augusto Benv- enuti in the Palazzo Ducale.25 The “f ...
introduction 11 to celebrate the glories of the ancient Republic.”29 As did Romanin, Molmenti took up historiographical arms to ...
12 eric r. dursteler the terraferma.32 His history was not purely derivative; on the contrary, it was innovative in moving beyon ...
introduction 13 depiction of venice during its final centuries as a place of “necrophile cli- chés of decadence,” “the city of c ...
14 eric r. dursteler “the glory of the ancient republic” became a cornerstone in the “Italian nationalist cause.” This continued ...
introduction 15 were adapted to the tastes of the “general public.”41 These factors, plus the dramatic and rapid changes in vene ...
16 eric r. dursteler and evidence a rather traditionalist restatement of venice’s past, untouched by the major transformations t ...
introduction 17 terraferma but, rather, “conquests of a cultural character.” The objective was to identify (imagine?) “the trace ...
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