Venice, Cità Excelentissima

Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Av Patricia H. Labalme, Laura Sanguineti White, Patricia H Labalme

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When Venice was both a center of Renaissance culture and a gathering place for news from around the world, Marin Sanudo tried to write everything down. He was the finest diarist of his time, with a keen eye for the everyday and the monumental alike. Venice, Cita Excelentissima offers a broad and engaging introduction to Sanudo's detailed observations of life in his beloved city and the world it knew. This expertly translated volume glimpses into Renaissance life at a spectacular time when Venice was at the top of its game. Organized thematically, the selections offer a Venetian's viewpoint of the glories of high culture, the gritty reality and sparkling drama of daily life, the perils of diplomacy and war, and the high-risk ventures of voyages and commerce. Here, the work of the Renaissance's most assiduous historian is finally given the accessibility it warrants and the merit it is due.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-08-25
Mått156 x 235 x 44 mm
Vikt1 043 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor640
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801887659
ÖversättareCarroll, Linda L., Carroll, Linda L

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List of MapsPrefaceAbout the TranslationIntroduction: Marin Sanudo, His Life, His City, and His DiariesList of AbbreviationsChronology and List of Doges1. Sanudo on Sanudo2. The Venetians Govern3. Crime and Justice4. Foreign Affairs: War and Diplomacy5. Economic Networks and Institutions6. Society and Social Life7. Religion and Superstition8. Humanism and the Arts9. Theater in Venice, Venice as TheaterAppendix A: Money, Wealth, and WagesAppendix B: Glossary and TermsBibliographyIndex

This volume is indispensable not only as an eyewitness view on events... but also as a primer on the political, social, and cultural workings of a city that today continues to amaze. The editors and translator are all lifelong scholars of Venice and bring tremendous knowledge to their commentary. -- Linda L. Carroll History: Reviews of New Books 2009 A monument to Venice. -- Margaret L. King Renaissance Quarterly 2009 The diaries were written in the author's native tongue-Venetian dialect- which remains impenetrable to most Italians... Translating the journal is therefore an unenviable task, and Linda Carroll, who prepared the majority of the passages in this book, has done well to lick Sanudo's syntax into readable shape... Its principal beneficiaries will be students and the general reader, to whom Sanudo need no longer be inaccessible, but aficionados will also be rewarded with plenty of new material. -- Simon P. Oakes Apollo 2009 This book provides a tremendous resource for researchers, teachers, and the general public... The quality of the passage selection and the lively translation of Venice, Cita Excelentissima provides a living and breathing early modern Venice for all readers to enjoy. -- Brian Maxson Sixteenth Century Journal 2010 Will certainly be an excellent tool for the teaching of Italian and Venetian sixteenth-century history. -- Maria Fusaro International Journal of Maritime History 2009