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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524691103321

Autore

Grubb James S. <1952->

Titolo

Firstborn of Venice : Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State / / James S. Grubb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 1988

©1988

ISBN

0-8018-3613-1

1-4214-3187-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 238 p. :) : maps ;

Collana

The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; ; 106th ser., 3 (1988)

Disciplina

945/.31

Soggetti

City-states - Italy - History

Renaissance - Italy - Venice

Renaissance - Italy - Vicenza

Electronic books.

Venice (Italy) History 697-1508

Vicenza (Italy) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 189-230.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Making of the Composite State -- 1. Creating the Territorial State -- 2. Definitions of State -- 3. Dominion and Law -- 4. Dominion and Empire -- Part II. Privileged Commune, Commune of the Privileged -- 5. Commune and Governor -- 6. Commune and Countryside -- 7. Affirmation of the Patriciate -- 8. Consolidation of the Patriciate -- Part III. Center and Periphery -- 9. Pacification and Security -- 10. Fisc and Army -- 11. Piety and Morals -- 12. Appeals and Their Limits -- 13. Reconstructing Local Prerogatives -- Part IV. The Renaissance Venetian State -- 14. Unity and Particularism -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleOriginally published in 1988. In the decades after 1404, traditionally maritime Venice extended its control over much of



northern Italy. Citizens of Vicenza, the first city to come under Venetian rule, proclaimed their city "firstborn of Venice" and a model for the Venetian Republic's dominions on the terraferma. In Firstborn of Venice James Grubb tests commonplace attributes of the Renaissance state through a rich case study of society and politics in fifteenth-century Vicenza. Looking at relations between Venetian and local governments and at the location of power in Vicentine society, Grubb reveals the structural limitations of Venetian authority and the mechanisms by which local patricians deflected the claims of the capital. Firstborn of Venice explores issues that are political in the broadest sense: legal institutions and administrative practices, fiscal politics, the consolidation of elites, ecclesiastical management, and the contrasting governing ideologies of ruler and subjects.