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Author: Sandra Toffolo Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004428208 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 342
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A detailed analysis of descriptions of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when both the city of Venice and the mainland state were undergoing fundamental changes.
Author: Sandra Toffolo Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004428208 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 342
Book Description
A detailed analysis of descriptions of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when both the city of Venice and the mainland state were undergoing fundamental changes.
Author: Sandra Toffolo Publisher: Studies in Medieval and Reform ISBN: 9789004415904 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
" 'In Describing the City, Describing the State' Sandra Toffolo presents a comprehensive analysis of descriptions of the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when the Venetian mainland state was being created. Focusing on an extensive variety of descriptions, the book demonstrates that no one narrative of Venice prevailed in the early modern European imagination, and that authors continuously adapted geographical descriptions to changing political circumstances. In doing so, it shows the importance of studying geographical representation and early modern state formation together. Moreover, it challenges the long-standing concept of the myth of Venice, by showing that Renaissance observers never saw the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in a monolithic way"--
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