dc.contributor.author | TOFFOLO, Sandra | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-02T09:56:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-02T09:56:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; 221 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9789004428201 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72320 | |
dc.description.abstract | In Describing the City, Describing the State Sandra Toffolo presents a comprehensive analysis of descriptions of the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when the Venetian mainland state was being created. Working with an extensive variety of descriptions, the book demonstrates that no one narrative of Venice prevailed in the early modern European imagination, and that authors continuously adapted geographical descriptions to changing political circumstances. This in turn illustrates the importance of studying geographical representation and early modern state formation together. Moreover, it challenges the long-standing concept of the myth of Venice, by showing that Renaissance observers never saw the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in a monolithic way. | en |
dc.description.tableofcontents | -- Introduction -- Part 1. Perceptions of Venice in Its Urban Setting -- Chapter 1. Venice, Religious City -- Chapter 2. Venice, Centre of Material Culture -- Chapter 3. Venice, Seat of an Ideal Government -- Chapter 4. Venice, Morally Exemplary City -- Part 2. Perceptions of Venice and the Terraferma as a State -- Chapter 5. Venetian Views on Venice and the Terraferma as a State --Chapter 6. Viewing the Venetian Mainland State from the Mainland -- Chapter 7. Foreign Views of the Venetian State -- Conclusion: Venice as City, Venice as State -- Bibliography -- Index | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Brill | en |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://hdl.handle.net/1814/29618 | |
dc.title | Describing the city, describing the state : representations of Venice and the Venetian terraferma in the renaissance | en |
dc.type | Book | en |
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dc.description.version | Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2013 | |