Warfare and Politics: Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice 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 Florence, Rome, Venice, and the Italian peninsula in general through the Renaissance and early modern period.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Warfare and Politics, Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice
- Editorial Introduction
- Humfrey Butters and Gabriele Neher
- I. Prologue
- Historians and the Renaissance State
- II. Warfare: Politics and Battles, Fighters and Civilians, Narration and Analysis
- War and Beatitude
- The Ottoman Conquest of Negroponte (1470) and the Founding of the Venetian Convent of the Holy Sepulchre
- Patriots and Partisans
- Popular Resistance to the Occupation of the Venetian Terraferma by the Forces of the League of Cambrai
- Picturing the News in Wartime Venice
- Political Woodcut Imagery in Printed Pamphlets Inspired by the Events of the War of the League of Cambrai (1509-1517)
- Fabrizio Colonna and Machiavelli’s Art of War
- A Clash of Dukes
- Cosimo I de’ Medici, Wilhelm of Cleves, and the ‘guerra di Dura’ of 1543
- III. Political Language and Careers, Urban Identity and Transformation, the Physical Environment
- Popular Ideology in Communal Italy*
- Venetian Gothic
- A Symbol of ‘National’ Identity?
- Marin Sanudo on Brescia
- Caterina Cornaro’s 1497 Entry and Glimpses into the Life and Politics of a Renaissance Border Town
- Bodies Politic
- The Environment, Public Health, and the State in Sixteenth-Century Venice
- The Price of Charles V’s Protection in Italy
- Odious Comparisons
- Cosimo I, the Duke of Athens, and Florence
- IV. Epilogue
- Renaissance Cities through Ruskinian Eyes
- An English Architect in Italy in 1902
- Bibliography of Michael Edward Mallett (1932-2008)
- Humfrey Butters and Suzanne B. Butters
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- Picturing the News in Wartime Venice
- Figure 1 Title page of an anonymous pamphlet entitled La victoriosa Gata da Padua (Venice, [1509])
- Figure 2 Title page of an anonymous pamphlet entitled Papa Iulio secondo che redriza tuto el mondo [Venice, 1512]
- Figure 3 Title page of Francesco Maria Sacchino’s pamphlet entitled Spauento de Italia [Forlì?, 1510]
- Figure 4 Title page of an anonymous pamphlet entitled Tutte le cose seguite in Lombardia dapoi chel signor Bartolomio gionto in campo [Venice, 1513]
- Figure 5 Title page of an anonymous pamphlet entitled Processo de mali fruti e pensadi omicidi de li segnori venetiani con la presa del polesine [Ferrara: Lorenzo Rossi?, 1510]
- Figure 6 Title page of an anonymous pamphlet entitled Pronostico e profecia de le cose debeno succedere maxime dele guere comenziate per magni potentati contra venetiani [Ferrara?, 22 January 1509]
- Figure 7 Title page of Bartolomeo Cordo’s pamphlet entitled La obsidione di Padua ne la quale se tractano tutte le cose che sono occorse […] (Venice, 3 October 1510)
- A Clash of Dukes
- Figure 1 Bronzino – Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici, 1543, Florence, Uffizi Gallery
- Figure 2 Heinrich Aldegrever – Portrait of Wilhelm of Cleves, 1540, Museum Zitadelle, Jülich
- Figure 3 Map of the Rhineland Campaign of 1543
- Figure 4 Wenceslaus Hollar – Plan of Düren, 1647, Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek; the circle highlights the Kölntor – the ‘Gate of Cologne’
- Figure 5 Wenceslaus Hollar – Plan of Düren (detail); the fortifications in front of the Kölntor were not rebuilt, but they could not have differed much from those guarding the other town gates – in this case, the Holtzpfort
- Figure 6 Wenceslaus Hollar – The Holtzpfort of Düren, 1664, Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale
- Figure 7 Daniel Specklin – The Citadel of Jülich, 1589, Museum Zitadelle, Jülich (detail); built after 1548 following the project of Italian architect Alessandro Pasqualini, the new citadel of Jülich is a perfect example of the alla moderna style of fort
- Venetian Gothic
- Figure 1 The first floor loggia of the Molo wing of the Palazzo Ducale, c.1340-1346 or later
- Figure 2 The Palazzo Ducale: upper part of the Porta della Carta (1438-c.1443). with the image of doge Foscari and the Marcian lion
- Figure 3 Ca’ Foscari (1452-c.1457) as seen from the Rialto bridge
- Figure 4 The ‘twin’ Palazzi Soranzo on Campo San Polo, the left one c.1380-1410. the right in c.1475
- Figure 5 Outer corner of the facade of the Ca’ d’Oro, c.1424-1428
- Figure 6 The land-gate at Ca’ Foscari, with the prominent stemma of the clan
- Figure 7 The loggia at the Ca’ d’Oro by Matteo Raverti, 1425-1427
- Figure 8 Facade of Palazzo Pisani Moretta, 1481-c.1485
- Marin Sanudo on Brescia
- Figure 1 Floriano Ferramola – A Tournament at Brescia, ca. 1511. London, Victoria & Albert Museum
- Bodies Politic. The Environment, Public Health, and the State in Sixteenth-Century Venice
- Figure 1 Benedetto Bordone, Map of Venice from Isolario (Venice, 1534) (Wellcome Library, London)
- Odious Comparisons
- Figure 1 Stefano Buonsignori, 1584 Map of Florence, with author’s superimposed site indications (a-z) relating to Walter de Brienne (Duke of Athens), Florence, Istituto Geografico Militare. © Istituto Geografico Militare.*
- Figure 2 Stefano Buonsignori, 1584 Map of Florence, with author’s superimposed site indications A-I relating to Cosimo de Medici Florence, Istituto Geografico Militare. © Istituto Geografico Militare
- Figure 3 Giorgio Vasari and Giovanni Stradano, Leo X’s 1515 cortege in the Piazza della Signoria (1555-62), Palazzo Vecchio, Sala di Leone X: showing the San Giorgio hill and cannon salvos from the future site of Cosimo’s 1546 ‘strada’. © Studio Antonio
- Figure 4 Giovanni Stradano, from Giorgio Vasari survey, Siege of Florence (1561-62), fresco, Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, Sala di Clemente VII. © Studio Antonio Quattrone)
- Figure 5 Cosimo Bartoli, Surveying points in and around Florence, from ‘Del modo di misurare le distanze’ (dedicated to Cosimo I, 1559), Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 30, 27, fol. 127v: labels include ‘[palazzo] del duca’, ‘m[ercato] nuovo’, ‘b
- Figure 6 Alessandro del Barbiere, (Fei) attrib., Fantasy view of the Neptune fountain, the ducal palace, the Uffizi ‘strada’ and the San Giorgio hill beyond, private collection. Photograph by Cosimo Boccardi, Fondazione Federico Zeri, inv. 84493 (‘La ri
- Renaissance Cities through Ruskinian Eyes
- Figure 1 Edwin F. Reynolds c. 1915-1917
- Figure 2 Sketches and notes made by Edwin F. Reynolds in Florence, Wednesday 2 April 1902
- Figure 3 Plan, section, and notes made by Edwin F. Reynolds at S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, on Monday 7 April 1902
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