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Warfare and Politics : Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice / ed. by Gabriele Neher, Humfrey Butters.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Renaissance History, Art and Culture ; 3Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048525133
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Warfare and Politics, Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice -- I. Prologue -- Historians and the Renaissance State -- II. Warfare: Politics and Battles, Fighters and Civilians, Narration and Analysis -- War and Beatitude -- Patriots and Partisans -- Picturing the News in Wartime Venice -- Fabrizio Colonna and Machiavelli's Art of War -- A Clash of Dukes -- III. Political Language and Careers, Urban Identity and Transformation, the Physical Environment -- Popular Ideology in Communal Italy -- Venetian Gothic -- Marin Sanudo on Brescia -- Bodies Politic -- The Price of Charles V's Protection in Italy -- Odious Comparisons -- IV. Epilogue -- Renaissance Cities through Ruskinian Eyes -- Bibliography of Michael Edward Mallett (1932-2008) -- Index of Names
Summary: 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 economic, military, political, and diplomatic history of Florence, Rome, Venice, and the Italian peninsula in general through the Renaissance and early modern period.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Warfare and Politics, Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice -- I. Prologue -- Historians and the Renaissance State -- II. Warfare: Politics and Battles, Fighters and Civilians, Narration and Analysis -- War and Beatitude -- Patriots and Partisans -- Picturing the News in Wartime Venice -- Fabrizio Colonna and Machiavelli's Art of War -- A Clash of Dukes -- III. Political Language and Careers, Urban Identity and Transformation, the Physical Environment -- Popular Ideology in Communal Italy -- Venetian Gothic -- Marin Sanudo on Brescia -- Bodies Politic -- The Price of Charles V's Protection in Italy -- Odious Comparisons -- IV. Epilogue -- Renaissance Cities through Ruskinian Eyes -- Bibliography of Michael Edward Mallett (1932-2008) -- Index of Names

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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 economic, military, political, and diplomatic history of Florence, Rome, Venice, and the Italian peninsula in general through the Renaissance and early modern period.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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