Warfare and Politics : : Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice / / ed. by Gabriele Neher, Humfrey Butters.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Arfaioli, Maurizio,; Butters, Humfrey,; Butters, Suzanne B.,; Crawshaw, Jane Stevens,; Fletcher, Stella,; Goy, Richard,; Mueller, Reinhold C.,; Najemy, John M.,; Neher, Gabriele,; Pepper, Simon,; Ricciardelli, Fabrizio,; Shaw, Christine,; Stermole, Krystina,
• HerausgeberIn: Butters, Humfrey,; Neher, Gabriele,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Renaissance History, Art and Culture ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

This volume brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance. The essays cover a remarkably broad geographical and topical range as they analyse the economic, military, political, and diplomatic history of Flo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Warfare and Politics, Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice
• I. Prologue
• Historians and the Renaissance State
• II. Warfare: Politics and Battles, Fighters and Civilians, Narration and Analysis
• War and Beatitude
• Patriots and Partisans
• Picturing the News in Wartime Venice
• Fabrizio Colonna and Machiavelli's Art of War
• A Clash of Dukes
• III. Political Language and Careers, Urban Identity and Transformation, the Physical Environment
• Popular Ideology in Communal Italy
• Venetian Gothic
• Marin Sanudo on Brescia
• Bodies Politic
• The Price of Charles V's Protection in Italy
• Odious Comparisons
• IV. Epilogue
• Renaissance Cities through Ruskinian Eyes
• Bibliography of Michael Edward Mallett (1932-2008)
• Index of Names