Counterfeiting Nature: Artistic Innovation and Cultural Crisis in Renaissance Venice
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| ANO | 1990 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Comparative Studies in Society and History |
| ISSN | 0010-4175 |
| E-ISSN | 1475-2999 |
| EDITORA | Elsevier (Netherlands) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500016339 |
| CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| ADICIONADO EM | Não informado |
Resumo
Venice faced serious political and economic setbacks in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The future of the Eternal Republic seemed bleak when, in 1509, nearly bankrupt, her commercial empire in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean slipping away, Venice's army was routed at Agnadello by the forces of the League of Cambrai. Even the elements seemed to have turned against Venice around this time, visiting the city with earthquake, storm, flood, famine, and the plague. Well might the prominent banker Girolamo Priuli have feared that 'great God has permitted and ordered this severe ruin of the Venetian Empire'