Venice, A Maritime Republic

Venice, A Maritime Republic
Author: Frederic Chapin Lane
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1973-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801814600

A history of Venice from the earliest times - Crusades - Ships and navigation - Byzantine and Gothics - Humanism - Renaissance - Merchant shipping - Scuole.

Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy

Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy
Author: Daniela Frigo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2000-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521561891

This 2000 volume was the first attempt at a comparative reconstruction of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the major Italian states in the early modern period. The various contributions reveal the instruments and forms of foreign relations in the Italian peninsula. They also show a range of different case-studies and models which share the values and political concepts of the cultural context of diplomatic practice in the ancien régime. While Venice, the Papal States, the duchy of Savoy, Florence (later the duchy of Tuscany), Mantua, Modena, and later the kingdom of Naples may be considered minor states in the broader European context, their diplomatic activity was equal to that of the major powers. This reconstruction of their ambassadors, their secretaries, and their ceremonies offers a fascinating interpretation of the political history of early modern Italy.

Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance

Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance
Author: Margaret L King
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400854342

In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of their class and of the city itself. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Trading Conflicts

Trading Conflicts
Author: Georg Christ
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004221999

Based on Mamluk and Venetian sources, this book offers a thorough analysis of the various conflicts arising around Levant trade. It demonstrates how these conflicts more often than not cut across cultural divides in Late Medieval Mamluk Alexandria.

Venice Triumphant

Venice Triumphant
Author: Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2005-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801881893

A group of senior citizens decide to move in together in All Together, a French-language comedy from director Stephanie Robelin. When Claude (Claude Rich) suffers an injury while trying to climb steps in order to meet a woman for a liaison, he and his friends, who are all suffering from some age-related malady, decide to move in together and hire a graduate student to look out for them. Among the new co-tenants are the senile Albert (Pierre Richard) and his wife, the outgoing Jeanne (Jane Fonda) who herself is fighting cancer. Also living with them is Jean (Guy Bedos) a onetime social crusader who enjoys the wealth he's acquired with his wife Annie (Geraldine Chaplin), who wants nothing more than to visit with her children and grandchildren. As they adjust to their new living arrangements, old jealousies and hurts resurface, forcing everyone to reconsider how they want to spend their golden years. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Byzantium and Venice

Byzantium and Venice
Author: Donald M. Nicol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1992-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521428941

This book, the first of this scope to have been published, traces the diplomatic, cultural and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian republic to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, especially after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time the author points to those important cultural and, above all, political reasons why the relationship between the two states was always inherently unstable.

Vita Viri Clarissimi Et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani

Vita Viri Clarissimi Et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani
Author: Francesco Scalamonti
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780871698643

"Montana Disasters" is real-life thriller. It will leave you with the breathless sense of how it feels to be caught in mining catastrophes, flash floods, train wrecks, and more. It will expose you to the sorrow and elation of victims' friends and families. Taut with the fury of calamities and the courageous efforts of men and women to save lives, "Montana Disasters" takes you to the scenes where the forces of nature and humans wreaked havoc.

Gasparo Contarini

Gasparo Contarini
Author: Elisabeth G. Gleason
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2024-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520310330

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.