Commerce, Peace, and the Arts in Renaissance Venice
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16th century
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Act Iii
Alvise Cornaro
Alvise Mocenigo
Angelo Beolco
archival research methods
Archivio Di Stato
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Bartolomeo Vivarini
Cambrai Wars
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Compagnia Della Calza
Compagnie Della Calza
Doge Francesco Foscari
early modern patronage
economic history Italy
Emilio Lovarini
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Family Commercial Enterprise
fifteenth century
Flanders Galleys
Francesco Foscari
Giovanni Grimani
governance
Italian theatre studies
literary writing
literature
Machiavelli's Mandragola
Machiavelli’s Mandragola
Marco Grimani
oeuvre
Padua
playwright
political networks
political networks Renaissance
Provveditore Generale
regained land
Renaissance
Ruzante
Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari
sixteenth century
theatrical writing
times
trade
Triumphante Families
Venetian
Venetian cultural history
Venetian patrician art patronage connections
Venetian Patricians
Venice
Western Galleys
Wool Guild
Young Man
Zuan Polo
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- ISBN 9780367140489
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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With the Paduan playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this book sheds new light on his oeuvre and times - and on Venetian patrician interest in him - by embedding the Venetian aspects of his life within the monumental changes taking place in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice, politically, economically, socially, and artistically. In a study of patronage in the broadest sense of the term, Linda Carroll draws on vast quantities of new archival information; and by reading the previously unpublished primary sources against each other, she uncovers remarkable and heretofore unsuspected coincidences and connections. She documents the well-known links between the increasingly fruitless trade to the north and the need for new investments in land (re)gained by Venice on the mainland, links between problems of governance and political networks. She unveils the significance and potential purposes of those who invited Ruzante to perform in what are interpreted as "rudely" metaphorical truth-telling plays for Venetians at the highest social and political levels. Focusing on a group of patrons of art works in S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, the first chapter establishes their numerous interrelated commercial and political interests and connects them to the content of the works and artists chosen to execute them. The second chapter demonstrates the economic interests and related political tensions that lay behind the presence of many high-ranking government officials at a scandalous 1525 Ruzante performance. It also draws on these and materials concerning previous generations of the Beolco family and Venetian patricians to provide an entirely new picture of Beolco's relationships with his Venetian supporters. The third chapter analyzes an important Venetian literary manuscript of the period in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University whose copyist had remained unknown and whose contents have been little studied. The identity of the copyist, a central figure in the worlds of theatrical and historical and, now, literary writing in early sixteenth century Venice, is clarified and the works in the manuscript connected to the cultural worlds of Venice, Padua and Rome.
Linda L. Carroll is Professor of Italian at Tulane University, USA. She is the author of numerous books and articles explicating the exceptionally but opaquely candid plays of Angelo Beolco (Il Ruzante), whose Prima oratione she has edited and translated. She is co-editor of Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy.
