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Warfare and Politics : Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice /

Warfare and Politics: Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice 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 analys...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Neher, Gabriele (Editor ), Butters, H. C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Renaissance history, art and culture ; 3.
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  • 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 'guerra 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 'National' 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.