TY  - BOOK
AU  - Valensi,Lucette
AU  - Denner,Arthur
TI  - The Birth of the Despot: Venice and the Sublime Porte 
SN  - 9781501717215
AV  - DR479.I8 V3513 1993eb
U1  - 949.61/015 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Despotism
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Italy
KW  - Venice
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Italy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Overture --; PART ONE --; Judith --; Holofernes --; In the Heart of the Seraglio --; The Prophecy of Daniel --; Chorus --; PART TWO --; "Greater tyranny the world has never seen or imagined" --; At the Sublime Porte --; The Abduction fro the Seraglio --; Finale --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds: the period after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, when Venice's pursuit of its commercial and maritime interests brought two powerful protagonists—Venice and the Sublime Porte—face-to-face. Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans, in which Judith liberates her besieged town by killing the Turk Holofernes, serves as the organizing metaphor in Valensi's study of how Venice's perceptions of its rival changed. Valensi shows how Venice's initial admiration for the sultan and his orderly empire metamorphosed into revulsion at a monstrous tyrant
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501717215
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501717215
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501717215/original
ER  -