LEADER 04718nam 2200469 450 001 9910819241603321 005 20201201055905.0 010 $a90-04-42820-8 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004428201 035 $a(CKB)4100000011044503 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6276055 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011044503 100 $a20201201d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun####uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDescribing the city, describing the state $erepresentations of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance /$fby Sandra Toffolo 210 1$aLeiden, The Netherlands ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aStudies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;$vVolume 221 311 08$aOnline version: Toffolo, Sandra. Describing the city, describing the state Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004428201 (DLC) 2020018157 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- List of Figures -- A Note on the Book -- Introduction -- 1 Geographical Descriptions, the Myth of Venice, and the Venetian Terraferma -- 2 Placing Texts within Literary Contexts -- 3 Constructing a Mainland State -- 4 Outline of the Book -- part 1: Perceptions of Venice in Its Urban Setting -- 1 Venice, Religious City -- 1 God?s Role in the Foundation of Venice -- 2 Divine Protection throughout History -- 3 Connections to Saint Mark -- 4 External Religious Structures -- 5 The Piety of the Venetians -- 2 Venice, Centre of Material Culture -- 1 A City Situated ?in the Stormy Fury of the Sea? -- 2 Urban Structure -- 3 Wealth -- 4 Commerce -- 5 Industry -- 6 Art and Scholarship -- 3 Venice, Seat of an Ideal Government -- 1 The Development of a Political Narrative of Venice -- 2 Elements of a Political Venice -- 3 The Ideal of a Mixed Constitution -- 4 The Concept of Liberty -- 5 Politics and Morality -- 4 Venice, Morally Exemplary City -- 1 ?It Presses Every Gathered Virtue to Its Bosom? -- 2 A Moral Venice from Its Foundation -- 3 Morality and Poetry -- part 2: Perceptions of Venice and the Terraferma as a State -- 5 Venetian Views on Venice and the Terraferma as a State -- 1 Justifications for Mainland Expansion -- 2 The Conquest of Friuli -- 3 Links between Venice and the Terraferma -- 4 Political Affiliation as a Factor in the Depiction of Territories -- 6 Viewing the Venetian Mainland State from the Mainland -- 1 Two Poems Dedicated to Local Families -- 2 Ubertino Posculo?s Oratio de laudibus Brixiae -- 3 Michele Savonarola?s Praise of Padua -- 4 Silvestro Lando?s Preface to the Statutes of Verona -- 5 A Paduan Pilgrim on His Way to the Holy Land -- 6 Four Poems by Bartolomeo Pagello -- 7 Jacopo Sanguinacci?s Inchoronato regno sopra i regni -- 8 Francesco Corna da Soncino?s Poem on Verona -- 7 Foreign Views of the Venetian State -- 1 ?Hit Is also Vnder the Domynyon of the Venysyans?: Views of Formal Political Affiliation -- 2 Political and Geographical Affiliation: the Case of Greece -- 3 Conflicting Ideas on Venice and the Venetian State -- 4 Interpreting Venice and Its Dominions in One Common Framework -- Conclusion: Venice as City, Venice as State -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aIn Describing the City, Describing the State Sandra Toffolo presents a comprehensive analysis of descriptions of the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when the Venetian mainland state was being created. Working with an extensive variety of descriptions, the book demonstrates that no one narrative of Venice prevailed in the early modern European imagination, and that authors continuously adapted geographical descriptions to changing political circumstances. This in turn illustrates the importance of studying geographical representation and early modern state formation together. Moreover, it challenges the long-standing concept of the myth of Venice, by showing that Renaissance observers never saw the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in a monolithic way. 410 0$aStudies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;$vVolume 221. 606 $aRenaissance$zItaly$zVenice 607 $aVenice (Italy)$xDescription and travel 607 $aVenice (Italy)$xPolitics and government$y697-1508 607 $aVenice (Italy)$xHistoriography 615 0$aRenaissance 676 $a940.21 700 $aToffolo$b Sandra$01656338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819241603321 996 $aDescribing the city, describing the state$94009159 997 $aUNINA