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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| List of Contributors | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| General Descriptions | |
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| Praise of the city of Venice, 1493 | |
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| A pilgrim's impressions, 1480 | |
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| Sansovino on building-materials and techniques | |
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| The English ambassador's notes, 1612 | |
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| The dominions of the Venetian Republic: a report by the Spanish ambassador, c.1618 | |
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| Authority and Government | |
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| 'An Infinitie of Officers': Theory, Description and Panegyric | |
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| Contarini's picture of perfection: the Senate | |
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| The Signoria 'in Pien Collegio' | |
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| The Doge | |
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| Death and election of a Doge noted by a visiting pilgrim, 1462 | |
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| Some restrictive obligations in the promissione of Doge Moro, 1462 | |
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| Publication of the new Doge, 1474: an eyewitness report | |
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| Ceremonial dignity: the Doge's procession | |
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| Elder statesmen: the Procurators of St Mark's | |
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| Watchdogs and public prosecutors: the Avogadori di Comun, 1515 | |
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| The Courts of the Forty | |
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| State security and arbitrary power: the Council of Ten | |
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| 'A very severe magistracy' | |
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| Special duties and official secrecy | |
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| The Great Council: procedure and function | |
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| Order of seating | |
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| Procedure in election of office-holders | |
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| The Chancery | |
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| Florentine admiration for Venice's system of government | |
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| Public spectacle | |
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| The Corpus Christi procession, 1533 | |
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| Temporary architecture for the reception of Henri III, King of France, at the Lido, 1574 | |
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| Defects, Corruption and Adverse Criticism | |
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| Benedetto Dei's invective against Venice, c.1472 | |
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| Radical proposals (c.1500) by an aged patrician (Domenico Morosini) | |
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| Indignities of the Dogeship | |
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| The deposition of Francesco Foscari, 1457 | |
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| Discord over a ducal election: 'old and new' families, 1486 | |
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| Financial abuses of Agostino Barbarigo: investigations in 1501 | |
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| Leonardo Loredan's want of leadership in the war crisis, 1509 | |
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| Alvise Mocenigo, scapegoat for misfortunes, 1577 | |
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| Demagogic tendencies: Marino Grimani's election, 1595 | |
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| Corrupt practices | |
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| Broglio: a curse or a blessing? | |
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| Fraudulent voting in the Great Council, 1519 | |
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| Misconduct and fraud, 1620 | |
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| Breaches of official secrecy | |
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| Reports in 1481 | |
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| Institution of the Inquisitori di Stato, 1539 | |
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| Opposition in the 1580s | |
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| Powers of the Council of Ten reduced by the younger patricians, 1583 | |
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| Open government versus restricted government, 1589 | |
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| A preacher criticizes the government, 1584 | |
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| Law, Order and Social Policy | |
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| Crime and Punishment | |
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| Crimes of violence and their punishment | |
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| The Lords or Officials of the Night | |
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| Ritual execution of an alleged rapist and robber, 1513 | |
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| Homicide mitigated by insanity: a special case, 1553-4 | |
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| Crimes of state | |
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| An imprisoned foreign agent petitions for clemency, 1497 | |
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| Execution of a Chancery secretary for breaking official secrets, 1498 | |
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| Antonio Grimani on trial, 1500 | |
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| The crime and punishment of Gabriel Emo, 1584-5 | |
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| Opinions about judicial and penal administration | |
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| Imprisonment and execution in the 1480s | |
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| A Welsh visitor's comments, 1549 | |
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| The case for convict oarsmen, c.1553-4 | |
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| Judges and advocates: a Florentine opinion, c.1569 | |
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| A papal nuncio's comments on the judicial administration of Venice, c.1580 | |
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| The Regulation of Society | |
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| Food for the city | |
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| Against bad flour, 1484, 1494 | |
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| Growth of population and shortages of food, 1540 | |
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| Famine and tumult in Venice, 1569-70 | |
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| The struggle against plague | |
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| The plague and the pesthouses, 1464, 1468 | |
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| The plague orders of 1541 | |
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| The plague of 1575-7 | |
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| The defence of morality | |
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| The Rialto brothel and the regulation of prostitution, 1460 | |
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| Sexual dissimulation condemned, 1480 | |
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| Homosexual practices unpunished, 1509 | |
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| The regulation of prostitution, 1539 | |
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| Prostitution and ostentation; the whore defined, 1543 | |
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| Blasphemy: the Ave maris stella case, 1593 | |
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| Good order and morality, 1612 | |
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| Public and Private Wealth | |
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| Public Revenue and Expenditure | |
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| The valuation of houses and land, 1459 | |
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| Levying the tenth, 1463 | |
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| Revenues of the Venetian government in 1469 | |
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| The sale of minor offices, 1510 | |
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| The hazards of speculating on customs duties, 1528-9 | |
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| Restrictions on the transfer of property to religious uses, 1536 | |
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| Clerical taxation: the grant by Pope Paul III, 1544 | |
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| Two mercers make a tax return, 1554 | |
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| Revenue of the Venetian Republic in 1587, 1594 and 1602 | |
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| Expenditure of the Venetian Republic in 1587, 1594 and 1602 | |
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| Public Borrowing: the Monti | |
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| The establishment of a state loan fund, 1482 | |
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| Investment in public loan funds and in land, 1509 | |
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| The repayment of public debt, 1577-84 | |
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| Commerce: Fortunes Made and Lost | |
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| The abundance of good things in Venice | |
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| In the late fifteenth century | |
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| In the early seventeenth century | |
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| The establishment of a board of trade, 1507 | |
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| Indebtedness and business failure, c.1500 | |
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| Nicolo Baron, Venetian citizen | |
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| Heinrich Stamler and brothers, German merchants | |
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| The activities and misfortunes of a merchant family, the Zane, 1524-50 | |
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| Letter of a merchant in Aleppo, 1551 | |
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| Failure of a bank, 1584 | |
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| An agreement to establish a merchant partnership, 1596 | |
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| Conspicuous Consumption and Styles of Living | |
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| A magistracy to administer sumptuary laws, 1515 | |
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| The regulation of banquets, 1562 | |
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| Regulation of the wearing of pearls, 1562 | |
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| Living well: supper and conversation in Titian's house | |
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| Living poorly: the squalid lodgings of Anton Francesco Doni, 1550 | |
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| 'The Present Face of Religion Here' | |
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| The Clergy and the People | |
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| Elections of parish clergy, c.1460, 1517 | |
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| The earthquake of 1511 and the purging of sin and misbelief | |
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| The clergy and musicians of St Mark's, 1581, 1626 | |
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| The churches of Venice and the education of the clergy, 1604, 1612 | |
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| An English Protestant looks at Venetian religious life, 1608 | |
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| Religious Houses and Reform | |
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| Splendour and worldliness: Santi Giovanni e Paolo in the 1480s | |
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| Laxity and strict observance: the reform of nunneries, 1519-21 | |
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| Foundation of a magistracy responsible for convents, 1521 | |
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| Abuses in the convent of San Zaccaria, 1528, 1585 | |
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| The misconduct of nuns' servants, 1528 | |
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| An illicit liaison between a nobleman and a nun, 1585 | |
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| Monks, friars and nuns, c.1580 | |
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| Fraternities of the Laity: the Scuole Grandi and Piccole | |
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| The rule of a lay fraternity, 1535 | |
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| Criticism of the Scuole Grandi, 1541 | |
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| A smith's rebellion against the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, 1555 | |
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| Conflict and Compromise with the Holy See | |
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| The Interdict of Pope Sixtus IV, 1482 | |
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| The contest for preferments, 1533 | |
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| The Apostolic Visitation, 1580-1 | |
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| The Interdict of Pope Paul V, 1606 | |
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| The Jesuits, 1619 | |
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| Heresy and Superstition | |
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| The appointment of three noblemen to attend the Inquisition, 1547, 1551 | |
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| An Anabaptist synod in Venice, 1550 | |
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| Veronese before the Inquisition, 1573 | |
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| Magic and superstition, c.1580 | |
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| Social Orders | |
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| The Nobility | |
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| The life cycle and family arrangements | |
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| The regulation of baptismal ceremonies, 1505 | |
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| The registration of noble births, 1506 | |
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| A marriage contract, 1583 | |
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| Partial division of a fraterna, 1593 | |
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| Clauses from the wills of a nobleman, 1606, 1611 | |
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| A widow hands over her estate to her sons, 1613 | |
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| Death of a patrician, 1527 | |
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| Service to the state | |
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| An embassy to Spain, 1561 | |
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| Equipping a galley during the War of Cyprus, 1570-1 | |
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| The office of Bailo in Constantinople, 1598 | |
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| Nobles, citizens and people in Venice, c.1618 | |
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| The Citizenry | |
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| The life cycle and family arrangements | |
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| Pages from a family chronicle, 1456-1506 | |
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| A merchant's child and his progress, 1509-11 | |
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| The death and burial of a Secretary of the Council of Ten, 1524 | |
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| The citizens, the popolo and the state | |
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| Nobles and citizens in Venice, 1509 | |
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| Maximilian of Habsburg's appeal to the people of Venice, 1511 | |
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| Service to the state | |
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| A secretary's career, c.1496-1516 | |
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| Election of the Grand Chancellor, 1511 | |
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| Losing the post of Grand Chancellor, 1581 | |
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| Citizenship by privilege | |
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| Citizenship at home and abroad, 1552 | |
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| Two citizens of Bergamo seek citizenship of Venice, 1629-30 | |
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| Craftsmen, Boatmen and Porters | |
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| The craft and wares of the mercers, 1446 | |
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| Charity, ritual and work: the charcoal-bearers, 1479 | |
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| The boatmen of San Toma | |
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| The craft and the brotherhood: master bakers and German assistants, 1543 | |
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| The protest of the Arsenal craftsmen, 1581 | |
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| The porters at the Arsenal, 1586-8 | |
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| Craftsmen as oarsmen: manning the reserve fleet, 1595 | |
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| Charity and the Poor | |
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| The General Situation | |
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| The charities of Venice, 1497 | |
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| The hospitals of Venice, c.1500 | |
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| The general scheme for poor relief, 1529 | |
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| The Poor in Hospital | |
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| An indulgence for a Venetian hospital, 1487 | |
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| The hospital of the Incurabili, 1522, 1539 | |
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| Chronically sick beggars are compelled to enter the hospital | |
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| The governing-body of the hospital | |
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| Foundlings and orphans | |
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| Adoption of a child from the foundling-hospital | |
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| Wages of orphans working outside the hospital of the Derelitti at Santi Giovanni e Paolo | |
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| Raising money by singing | |
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| Making sails for the Arsenal | |
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| Child abandonment and the hospital of the Pieta | |
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| Responsibilities of the Mendicanti and other hospitals, 1619 | |
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| The House Poor and the Shamefaced Poor | |
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| The poor brothers of the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, 1478 | |
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| Requests for aid from the Scuole Grandi, 1558-93 | |
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| Antonio, shoemaker of Rio Marin | |
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| Filomena Stella, widow of Paulo d'Anna, formerly Guardian Grande of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco | |
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| The shamefaced poor, 1596 | |
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| 'Most of their People are Foreigners' | |
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| The Germans | |
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| German merchants and the exchange house, 1475 | |
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| House rules for the new Fondaco dei Tedeschi, 1508 | |
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| Heresy and irreligion among the Germans of Venice, c.1580 | |
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| Auctioning the Black Eagle inn, 1630 | |
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| The Greeks | |
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| The church and the Scuola at San Biagio in Castello, 1470, 1498 | |
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| The church of San Giorgio dei Greci, 1511 | |
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| A preacher censured for attacking the Greeks, 1596 | |
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| 'Ebrei Tedeschi': the Germanic and Italian Jews | |
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| The 'Geto at San Hieronimo', 1516 | |
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| The conversion of a Jew to Christianity, c.1569 | |
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| Licence for a Jewish physician, 1589 | |
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| Moneylending and the second-hand trade, 1624 | |
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| 'Ebrei Levantini e Ponentini': the Sephardic Jews | |
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| Levantine Jews and the Ghetto Vecchio, 1541 | |
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| Motives for expelling the Marranos, 1550 | |
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| The charter of the Jewish merchants, 1589 | |
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| The Turks | |
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| House rules for the new Fondaco dei Turchi, 1621 | |
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| Cultural Life: Learning and Literature, Book-Publishing, Entertainment | |
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| The Promotion of Learning and Literature | |
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| The origins of St Mark's library: Cardinal Bessarion's gift, 1468 | |
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| Humanist historiography for Venice: a justification, 1487 | |
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| The impact of printing: Aldus's workshop as an intellectual centre | |
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| The Rialto School of philosophy in session, 1524 | |
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| Bembo's acknowledgement of Tuscan superiority in language | |
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| The establishment of schools in the sestieri, 1551 | |
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| The Venetian Academy and its programme of universal knowledge, 1560 | |
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| Sarpi's presence in intellectual circles, c.1600 | |
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| The Business Organization of Early Printing and Publishing | |
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| A contract between two Germans to print Bibles, 1478 | |
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| Copyright legislation to protect Sabellicus's History of Venice, 1486 | |
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| Two partners petition for copyright to print classical Greek authors, 1497 | |
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| Jacopo de'Barbari's panoramic view of Venice: petition for copyright, 1500 | |
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| Business records of Aldus Manutius and Andrea di Asola, 1500-1 | |
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| The printing of music: a composer in search of an agent, 1536 | |
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| Entertainment | |
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| The Statutes of the Modesti, a Company of the Hose, 1487 | |
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| Comedies sponsored by a Company of the Hose during Carnival, 1525 | |
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| Entertainment in the Doge's Palace during Carnival, 1526 | |
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| Role reversal: masquerades during Carnival, 1533 | |
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| Aquatic spectacle: a mock naval battle, 1530 | |
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| Commissions for verse and music, 1534 | |
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| Reopening of theatres after the Interdict, 1607 | |
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| The Visual Arts | |
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| Art for the State, Confraternities and Churches | |
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| Literary praise for art and artists | |
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| The benefits to Jacopo Sansovino of working in Venice, 1537 | |
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| Venetian art explained to foreign visitors, 1561 | |
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| Secular commissions and political imagery | |
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| Perugino's contract to paint in the Hall of the Great Council, 1494 | |
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| The clocktower on the Piazza, 1496-1500 | |
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| Doge Loredan's perceptions of political imagery, 1509 | |
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| Political iconography of a flagstaff base in the Piazza, c.1542 | |
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| A programme for redecorating the Ducal Palace after the fire of 1577 | |
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| The ceiling-framework for the hall of the Senate, 1578-82 | |
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| A design for the new Rialto Bridge, 1587 | |
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| Art in the service of diplomacy | |
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| Mantuan artists refused permission to copy a map, 1506 | |
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| A picture for the sister of the King of France, 1515-16 | |
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| Art in conflict with government | |
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| Venetian sculptors and stonemasons object to foreign competition, 1491 | |
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| Durer is prosecuted by the Painters' Guild, 1506 | |
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| Control over expenditure by the Procurators of St Mark's on portraits, 1580 | |
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| Order for the destruction of a statute at Belluno, 1623 | |
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| Art for confraternities and churches | |
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| A commission from the Scuola della Carita, 1539 | |
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| Faked mosaic work at St Mark's: Titian's evidence, 1563 | |
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| Contract of Veronese for the refectory of San Giorgio Maggiore, 1562 | |
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| The resolution to build the church of Santa Maria della Salute, 1630 | |
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| Private Commissions | |
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| An overseas order for a devotional picture, 1473 | |
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| Doge Agostino Barbarigo's altarpiece | |
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| Lotto alters a portrait to please a friend, 1542 | |
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| Lotto paints his landlord's family, 1547 | |
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| Sacred and profane pictures for the King of Spain, 1554 | |
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| Doge Marino Grimani orders marble sculpture for his tomb, 1601 | |
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| Collections, Connoisseurs and Critical Values | |
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| Andrea Odoni's collection, 1532 | |
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| A problem of attribution, 1529 | |
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| Gabriel Vendramin describes and justifies his collection, 1548 | |
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| Architectural style for the Duke of Milan's house in Venice, 1461 | |
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| A comparison of Giovanni Bellini with later painters | |
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| Aretino encourages and criticizes Tintoretto, 1548 | |
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| Palladio criticized in a dispute with the Scuola dei Mercanti, 1572 | |
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| Working-Practice, Technique and Style of Life | |
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| The property of a prosperous and literate painter, 1461 | |
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| Durer's comments on Venetian artists, 1506 | |
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| A painter's day-to-day expenses, 1541 | |
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| Lotto takes an apprentice, 1548 | |
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| The elderly Titian at work | |
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| A sculptor orders his own tomb, 1576 | |
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| References | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |