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Additional authors

1. Butters, H. C.
2. Neher, Gabriele

Description

1. 392 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. This volume brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance. The essays cover a remarkably broad geographical and topical range as they analyse the social, military, political, and diplomatic history of Florence, Rome, Venice, and the Italian peninsula in general through the Renaissance and early modern period.

Series statement

1. Renaissance history, art and culture ; 3

Uniform title

1. Renaissance history, art and culture ; 3.

Alternative title

1. Cities and government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice

Subject

1. Italy
2. Italy > History > 1492-1559
3. Italy > Politics and government > 1268-1559
4. 1268-1559
5. Politics and government
6. History
7. Italy > History > 1268-1492

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: I.Prologue -- Historians and the Renaissance State / Humfrey Butters -- II.Warfare: Politics and Battles, Fighters and Civilians, Narration and Analysis -- War and Beatitude: The Ottoman Conquest of Negroponte (1470) and the Founding of the Venetian Convent of the Holy Sepulchre / Reinhold C. Mueller -- Patriots and Partisans: Popular Resistance to the Occupation of the Venetian Terraferma by the Forces of the League of Cambrai / Simon Pepper -- Picturing the News in Wartime Venice: Political Woodcut Imagery in Printed Pamphlets Inspired by the Events of the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-1517) / Krystina Stermole -- Fabrizio Colonna and Machiavelli's Art of War / John M. Najemy -- A Clash of Dukes: Cosimo I de' Medici, Wilhelm of Cleves, and the g̀uerra di Dura' of 1543 / Maurizio Arfaioli -- III.Political Language and Careers, Urban Identity and Transformation, the Physical Environment -- Popular Ideology in Communal Italy / Fabrizio Ricciardelli -- Venetian Gothic: A Symbol of Ǹational' Identity? / Richard Goy -- Marin Sanudo on Brescia: Caterina Cornaro's 1497 Entry and Glimpses into the Life and Politics of a Renaissance Border Town / Gabriele Neher -- Bodies Politic: The Environment, Public Health, and the State in Sixteenth-Century Venice / Jane Stevens Crawshaw -- The Price of Charles V's Protection in Italy: The Example of Lucca / Christine Shaw -- Odious Comparisons: Cosimo I, the Duke of Athens, and Florence / Suzanne B. Butters* -- IV.Epilogue -- Renaissance Cities through Ruskinian Eyes: An English Architect in Italy in 1902 / Stella Fletcher.

Call number

1. JFE 20-5658

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Warfare and politics : cities and government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice / edited by Humfrey Butters and Gabriele Neher.

Publisher

1. [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Renaissance history, art and culture ; 3
2. Renaissance history, art and culture ; 3.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1268-1559

Added author

1. Butters, H. C., editor.
2. Neher, Gabriele, editor.

ISBN

1. 9789089647474 hardcover
2. 9089647473 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 20-5658