The Literary Culture of the Renaissance Venetian Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16474591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erin Maglaque (University of St Andrews, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-52 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Italian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0075-1634 • E-ISSN: 1748-6181 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00751634.2018.1403806 |
| OpenAlex | W2782035550 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article examines a corpus of fifteenth-century geographical and epigraphical literature representing the Venetian Mediterranean empire. It was collected and read by Venetian patrician men who were both humanists and part of the political class that governed Venice and its empire. Navigating between literary analysis and history of the book, the article first examines the Venetian legacy of the writings of Cyriac d’Ancona, before investigating the provenance of individual books and their collecting histories. Then, it turns to study the marginalia and annotations in these books by Venetian readers. It suggests that, in its composite construction, this literature provided ways for Venetian readers to imagine their own composite maritime state, particularly its history. Building on recent art historical analysis, I argue that the legitimacy that the aura of antiquity gave to the Venetian imperial enterprise was one of persistence: the Mediterranean empire was a space in which Venetians could encounter a living Greco-Roman imperial past
Ancient history · Art · Empire · Fifteenth · Humanism · Literature · Marginalia · Politics · Roman Empire · Vernacular · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · History · Law · Medieval History and Crusades · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |