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Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1639361251 |
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The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria, and West Africa. This golden period only drew to an end with the Republic’s eventual surrender to Napoleon. The Venetians illuminates the character of the Republic during these illustrious years by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history—Petrarch, Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Vivaldi, Casanova... Frequently, though, these emblems of the city found themselves at odds with the Venetian authorities, who prized stability above all else and were notoriously suspicious of any "cult of personality." Was this very tension perhaps the engine for the Republic’s unprecedented rise? Rich with biographies of some of the most exalted characters who have ever lived, The Venetians is a refreshing and authoritative new look at the history of the most evocative of city-states.
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Author | : Mrs. Maxwell |
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Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Author | : Louisa Stuart Costello |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1851 |
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Download Venice and the Venetians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Laura Valentine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1861 |
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Author | : de LA HAYE (An Officer in the Venetian Service.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1671 |
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Download The Policy and Government of the Venetians, Both in Civil and Military Affairs. Written in French by the Sieur de la Hay, and Faithfully Englished Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Lodovico Pizzati |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 1425987907 |
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Hard not to be florid about this book Devoured in snippets or read straight through. It presents amazing experiences and skills. Because Marc-Charles Nicolas has a brilliantly delicate appreciation for the idea of a sentence in a poem, the juxtapositions of segments in these pages appear essentially to construct entire topics for mediation. Examined along and the dawnings increase and multipy--- inspirations, love, feelings, locations, events hitherto isolated are now all hooks-and-eyes into each other. And because Marc-Charles gets his inspiration from the muse, you feel the exquisiteness and beauty buried in shattered phrases about the "universality of poetry." As a poet he belongs to a life larger than his own. The life of genuine things. And (One more performance worth a word): the poems in his book "Perfumed Paradise" are filled with aboutness'. Put together as they are, they're seen to abound with roots: their laughter or melancholy or ire has discernible reasons. The humanness of poem-writing as a hobby, the splendid unavoidability of it ---that is what this compilation brings together. But floridity was to be kept away. One cloudless day---pace the anti-sentimentalists: life is short I sat in the sun and by a Brook with a friend and passed pages of this manuscript from side to side, reading fragments aloud, laughing quietly or looking grave, occasionally thrilled and bemused. A while back, this was, yet I remember no happier afternoon. The poems were written originally in French 13 years ago in the year 1993, delicious remembrance - fantastic book! Virgo A. Bernice
Author | : Horatio Forbes Brown |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Venice (Italy) |
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Author | : Dennis Romano |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421431467 |
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Originally published in 1987. Since Machiavelli, historians and political theorists have sought the sources of the stability that earned for Venice the appellation La Serenissima, the Most Serene Republic. In Patricians and Popolani, Dennis Romano looks to the private lives of early Renaissance Venetians for an explanation. Fourteenth-century Venice escaped the tumultuous upheavals of the other Italian city-republics, Romano contends, because the patricians and common people of the city did not divide sharply along class or factional lines in their personal associations. Rather, Venetians of the era moved in a variety of intersecting social networks that were shaped and influenced by an overriding sense of civic community. Drawing on the private archives of Venice—notarial registers, collections of testaments, and records of estates maintained by the procurators of San Marco—Romano analyzes the primary social bonds in the lives of the city's inhabitants. In separate chapters, Patricians and Popolani examines the forms of association in everyday Venetian life: marriage and family structure; artisan workshops and relations among tradesmen; the role of the parish clergy and the "sacred networks" that formed around convents, hospitals, and confraternities; and neighborhood and patron–client ties. By the beginning of the fifteenth century, Romano argues, all these networks of association had been transformed as a new hierarchical spirit took hold and overwhelmed the older, more freewheeling tendencies of Venetian society. The old sense of community yielded to a new and equally compelling sense of place, and La Serenissima remained stable throughout the later Renaissance.
Author | : William Carew Hazlitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1132 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Venice (Italy) |
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