Stuart Serenissima

Eloise Davies is a historian of political thought. She is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida and holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. Alana Mailes is a musicologist, cultural historian, and classical singer. She is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California and holds a PhD in Historical Musicology from Harvard University.

• Chronology: Key Historical and Cultural EventsAbbreviationsList of FiguresIntroduction Eloise Davies and Alana MailesPart I: Diplomatic, Political and Religious FoundationsChapter 1. 2967 Cannaregio: the only (official) Protestant address in VeniceCarol Chillington RutterChapter 2. Venice, England and the world: Edwin Sandys, William Bedell, Paolo Sarpi and A relation of the state of religion (1605)Stefano VillaniChapter 3. Religion, politics and cross-confessional alliances for Micanzio, Cavendish and Bacon (by way of Hobbes)Filippo de Vivo**Part II: Commercial Exchange and Cultural Mobility **Chapter 4. The place of Venice in Stuart England's economic engagement in the Mediterranean, 1500–1700Antonio IodiceChapter 5. Why didn’t Dudley Carleton buy art from the English merchants in Venice?Christina AndersonChapter 6. Early Stuart musicians in VeniceAlana MailesPart III: Later Stuart LegaciesChapter 7. Courtesans, conspiracies and libertinism on the stage: depictions of Venice in The Novella, Venice preserv’d, and The ReformationBenjamin WoodfordChapter 8. Beyond classical republicans: Venice and English civil religionEloise DaviesChapter 9. Performing cultural affinity: the Whiggish ‘Venetian oligarchy’ and London operaAmy DunaginBibliography

“A valuable collection of essays on Anglo-Venetian relations during the seventeenth century, covering a wide range of disciplines.” - Michael G. Brennan, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Leeds