{"product_id":"firstborn-of-venice","title":"Firstborn of Venice","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1988. In the decades after 1404, traditionally maritime Venice extended its control over much of northern Italy. Citizens of Vicenza, the first city to come under Venetian rule, proclaimed their city \"firstborn of Venice\" and a model for the Venetian Republic's dominions on the \u003ci\u003eterraferma\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Firstborn of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e James Grubb tests commonplace attributes of the Renaissance state through a rich case study of society and politics in fifteenth-century Vicenza. Looking at relations between Venetian and local governments and at the location of power in Vicentine society, Grubb reveals the structural limitations of Venetian authority and the mechanisms by which local patricians deflected the claims of the capital. \u003ci\u003eFirstborn of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e explores issues that are political in the broadest sense: legal institutions and administrative practices, fiscal politics, the consolidation of elites, ecclesiastical management, and the contrasting governing ideologies of ruler and subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54226316099928,"sku":"9781421431871","price":47.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781421431871__67740c759afb6_3d4701ff-7fa6-4a80-a61d-2487af114f1e.jpg?v=1741156307","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/firstborn-of-venice","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}