Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance

I was not fortunate enough to meet Benjamin Kohl, the historian of medieval and Renaissance Venice and Veneto to whom this volume pays tribute. But, in common with many other historians of Venice, I have had many occasions to be thankful for Kohl’s work, as he was dedicated to making unpublished archival sources from the seemingly impenetrable Archivio di Stato in Venice available digitally and free online. Aside from his many books and articles—of which Padua under the Carrara, 1318–1405 (1998) is perhaps the best known—it was Ben Kohl’s efforts to make these archival documents available to researchers all over the world that has been one of his most important legacies. His work on ‘The Rulers of Venice, 1332–1524’, a database of thousands of Venetian office-holders, has been invaluable; and so too has the work of his Hedgelawn Foundation, which has made possible the digitisation and publication of important archival material relating to the political institutions of the Venetian state

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