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Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo

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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.

Table of Contents:
List of Maps Preface About the Translation Introduction: Marin Sanudo, His Life, His City, and His Diaries List of Abbreviations Chronology and List of Doges 1. Sanudo on Sanudo 2. The Venetians Govern 3. Crime and Justice 4. Foreign Affairs: War and Diplomacy 5. Economic Networks and Institutions 6. Society and Social Life 7. Religion and Superstition 8. Humanism and the Arts 9. Theater in Venice, Venice as Theater Appendix A: Money, Wealth, and Wages Appendix B: Glossary and Terms Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Patricia H. Labalme (1927-2002) was a highly regarded scholar of Renaissance history and a tireless supporter of the humanities. Laura Sanguineti White is a professor of Italian at Rutgers University. Linda L. Carroll is a professor of Italian at Tulane University.

Review :
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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801887659
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 640
  • Spine Width: 44 mm
  • Weight: 1043 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0801887658
  • Publisher Date: 25 Aug 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo
  • Width: 156 mm


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