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Histoire de Venise.
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ISBN: 2130528368 9782130528364 Year: 2002 Volume: 522 Publisher: Paris PUF

Venise 1500 : la puissance, la novation et la concorde : le triomphe du mythe
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ISSN: 11574488 ISBN: 2862604321 Year: 1993 Volume: 22 Publisher: Paris Autrement


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Histoire de la république de Venise
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Year: 1840 Publisher: Bruxelles : N.-J. Gregoir, V. Wouters et Cie,

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Information and communication in Venice : rethinking early modern politics.
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ISBN: 9780199227068 0199227063 9780199568338 0199568332 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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This is a unique investigation of the political uses of different forms of communication - oral, manuscript, and printed - in sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice, roughly the period between Machiavelli and Paolo Sarpi. De Vivo uses a rich and diverse range of sources - from council debates to leaks and spies' reports, from printed pamphlets to graffiti and rumors - to demonstrate just how closely political communication was intertwined with the wider social and economic life of the city. The book also engages with important wider problems, inviting comparison beyond Venice. For instance, today we take it for granted that communication and politics influence each other through spin-doctoring and media power. What, however, was the use of communication in an age when rulers recognized no political role for their subjects? And what access to political information did those excluded from government have? In answering these questions, de Vivo offers a highly original reinterpretation of early modern politics that steers a course between the tendency of the political historian to view events from the windows of government buildings and the 'history from below' of social historians. As this account shows, neither perspective is sufficient in isolation, because even the most secretive oligarchs, ensconced in the Ducal Palace's most restricted councils, were constantly preoccupied by their vociferous subjects in the squares below. Challenging the social and cultural boundaries of more traditional accounts, the book goes on to show how politics in early modern Venice extended far beyond the patrician elite to involve the entire population, from humble clerks and foreign spies, to notaries, artisans, barbers, and prostitutes. As both a city and the capital of a large state, Venice offers a rich terrain for this inquiry.

The silk industry of Renaissance Venice
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ISBN: 0801861896 9780801861895 0801876559 9780801876554 Year: 2000 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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The manufacture of luxury textiles, such as silk, was central to an Italian Renaissance economy based on status and conspicuous consumption. From the rapidly changing fashions that drove demand to the jobs created for craftsmen, weavers and merchants, the wealth and prestige associated with silk throughout Europe made it Italy's leading export industry. In this work, Luca Molà examines the silk industry in Renaissance Venice amid changing markets, suppliers, producers and government regulations. Drawing on archival research and European scholarship, Molà documents the innovations Venetians made in manufacturing and marketing to spur the silk industry. He uncovers the alliance between manufacturers and government to promote the industry in a changing international economic environment. Through flexible laws, quality was regulated to meet the varying requirements of an increasing range of customers. Molà also analyzes state policy that favoured the development and organization of silk producers throughout the Terraferma.

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