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Review Of Venice: An Intimate Empire, Brian Jeffrey Maxson Dec 2018

Review Of Venice: An Intimate Empire, Brian Jeffrey Maxson

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Review of Erin Maglaque. (2018) Venice's Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean. Cornell. 9781501721656.


Book Review Of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest For Cultural Legitimacy In Venice, Brian Jeffrey Maxson Sep 2016

Book Review Of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest For Cultural Legitimacy In Venice, Brian Jeffrey Maxson

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Review of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice by Sarah Gwyneth Ross


Review Of Venice, Cita Excelentissima: Selections From The Renaissance Diaries Of Marin Sanudo. E, Brian Maxson Jan 2010

Review Of Venice, Cita Excelentissima: Selections From The Renaissance Diaries Of Marin Sanudo. E, Brian Maxson

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This fascinating new book, Venice, Cita Excelentissima, contains a series of translated excerpts from the diaries of the Venetian patrician Marin Sanudo (1466-1536). Sanudo wrote his vast diaries between 1496 and 1533. As early as Sanudo's own lifetime, historians used the richness and variety of these diaries as an unparalleled evidentiary source for early modern Venice. The depth of the diaries derives from Sanudo's personal access to govern ment records and, perhaps even more, his attention to detail and the wide range of topics that he deemed worthy of record. The importance of the diaries prompted a group of Italian …