eLibrary: Venice

Venice reached the peak of its imperial reach at the start of the 13th century with the seizure and sacking of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. In the aftermath, Venice acquired Crete and several other islands in the Aegean. In 1261, however, the recapture of Constantinople by the Michael VIII with the help of Genoa, Venice’s chief trade rival in the region, dealt a blow to the city’s prestige and prosperity. Throughout this period, Venice was ruled as a republic, ruled by the Doge who was elected for life by the City Council, which was dominated by merchants and aristocrats. Under their patronage, the arts flourished, especially in the sphere of architecture, religious paintings, and religious music.

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Articles

Unknown ‘The promissio maleficiorum of Jacopo Tiepolo and its additiones (1232)’, PAX TIBI MARCE — Venice: government, law, jurisprudence — Venezia: istituzioni, diritto, giurisprudenza [pdf]

Apellániz, F. ‘Venetian Trading Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 44, 2, 157-179. [Researchgate]

Bertrand, G., ‘Venice Carnival from the Middle Ages to the Twenty First Century: A Political Ritual Turned “Consumer Rite”?’ Journal of Festive Studies, 2, 1, 2020, 77-104. [pdf download]

Bondioli, M. ‘The arsenal of Venice and the art of building ships.’ In Boats, Ships and Shipyards: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Venice, pp. 10-13. 2000. [pdf] 

Brown, H.F. Studies in the History of Venice, XXXX, 1907. [pdf download]

Cardolo, G.G. Istorii Venetiene. De la originile Cetăţii la moartea dogelui Jacopo Tiepolo (1249), Bucharest, 2008. 270pp [Academia]

Coggins, J.S. and Perali, C.F. ‘64% majority rule in ducal Venice: voting for the doge’, Public Choice 97, 4, 1998, 709-723. [Researchgate]

Cristea, O. ‘The Venetian “Four Seasons” in the Black Sea: The Chronicle of an Unsuccessful Hegemony (1204-1484)’, Rev. Roum. d’Hist., 47, 1-4, 2007, 5-23. [pdf]

Dibello, ‘Dinamiche istituzionali e prassi normative nella Venezia del tardo medioevo: nota al caso Foscari’, Archivo Veneto, 2016 [pdf download]

Greif, A., ‘Political organizations, social structure, and institutional success: Reflections from Genoa and Venice during the commercial revolution.’ Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE)/Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 151, 4, 1995, 734-740. [Researchgate]

Hodgson, F.C., Venice in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, London, 1910. 722pp [pdf]

Iodranou, I., ‘The Spy Chiefs or Renaissance Venice: Intelligence Leadership in the Early Modern World’ in P. Maddress e.a. (eds) Spy Chiefs, Volume 2: Intelligence Leaders in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, Washington DC, 2018 [Researchgate]

Marin, S. ‘Dominus quartae partis et dimidiae totius Imperii Romaniae. The Fourth Crusade and the Dogal Title in the Venetian Chronicles’ Representation’, Quaderni della Casa Romena di Venezia, 3, 2004, 119-150. [Academia]

Mueller, R.C., ‘Mercanti e imprenditori fiorentini a Venezia nel tardo medioevo’, Società e storia, 55, 1992, 29-60 [pdf]

Mueller, R.C. The Venetian Money Market. Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500, Baltimore, 2019, 158-229. [pdf]

Palmer, R.J. The Control of Plague in Venice and Northern Italy 1348-1600, PhD Thesis, Kent, 1978. 410pp [pdf]

Petkov,K.  ‘Relics and Society in Late Medieval and Renaissance Venice’, Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 19, 2010, XX-XX [pdf download]

Pezollo,L. ‘Stato, guerra e finanza nella Repubblica di Venezia fra medioevo e prima età modern’, Note di Lavoro del Dipartimento di Scienze, 2007, 67-112. [pdf download]

Puga, D and Trefler, D. ‘International Trade and Institutional Change: Medieval Venice’s Response to Globalization’,  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 753–821. [pdf]

Ortalli, G., Schmitt O.J. and Orlando (eds) Il Commonwealth Veneziano tra 1204 e la Fine Della Repubblica. Identità E Peculiarità, Venice, 2015. 536pp [pdf]

Ravid, B. ‘The Legal Status of Jews in Venice to 1509’ Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, vol. 54 (1987): 169-202 [Academia]

Romano, D. ‘Charity And Community in Early Renaissance Venice’, Journal of Urban History, 11, 1, 1984, 63-82. [pdf]

Scuro, R., ‘Shaping Identity through Glass in Renaissance Venice’, in S. Burghartz, e.a. Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1750 :Objects, Affects, Effects. Amsterdam, 2021, 99-134 [Researchgate]

Stahl, A.M ‘The deathbed oration of doge mocenigo and the mint of Venice’, Mediterranean Historical Review, 10, 1-2, 1995, 284-301 [Academia]

Takami, J. ‘La Contabilità della Scuola Grande di San Marco nel tardo Medioevo a Venezia’ xxxxxxx, 21pp [pdf]

Topkis, Z.B., Enduring City-States: The Struggle for Power and Security in the Mediterranean Sea. BA Senior Theses, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2015. 206pp [pdf]

Weil, A. The Navy of Venice, New York, 2010. 427pp [pdf download]

Wilson, J. M. and Favotto, A. ‘From Seedlings to Ships: Supply Chain Management in the Venice Arsenale, 1320-1800’,  British Academy of Management Conference, Newcastle, UK, 06-08 Sep, 2016 [pdf]

Zenobi, L. ‘Venice’s Terraferma Expansion and the Negotiation of Territories in late medieval Italy’, Ateneo Veneto, 18, 2, 2019, 187-217 [Academia]

Art

Bartazzo, C. ‘Images of the Dead in the Middle Ages. The Capitals of the Palazzo Ducale in Venice’ in A. Petö and K. Schrijvers, Faces of death: visualising history, Pisa, 2009, 189-204. [Academia]

Cozzi, E. ‘Paolo Veneziano e bottega: il polittico di Santa Lucia e gli antependia per l’isola di Veglia’, AFAT, 35, 2016, 235-293 [pdf download]

Cumming, J.E. ‘Music for the Doge in Early Renaissance Venice’, Speculum, 67, 2, 1992, 324-36 [Academia]

d’Arcais, F. ‘Tradizione e innovazione nella pittura veneziana del trecento: Paolo e Attorno a Paolo’, XXXX, 1996, [pdf]

Fregonese, L. and Adami, A.,’ The 3D Model of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice’, in B. Daniotti et al. (eds.) Digital Transformation of the Design, Construction and Management Processes of the Built Environment, 2020, 343-354. [pdf]

Guarnieri, C. ‘The Stories of St. Lucy by Jacobello del Fiore, and Venetian folding reliquary altarpieces’,  Musica e Figura, 5, 2018, 41-56. [Academia]

Guarnieri, C., ‘Lorenzo Veneziano e l’ordine dei predicatori: nuove riflessioni critiche attorno alle tre tele con la Madonna dell’umiltà’,  in L. Veneziano. Le Virgines humilitatis. Tre Madonne “de panno lineo”. Indagini, tecnica, iconografia’, Milan, 2011, 19-41. [Academia]

Hammond, J., ‘Five Jacopo Bellinis: The lives of Christ and the Virgin at the Scuola Grande di S. Giovanni Evangelista, Venice’, The Burlington Magazine, 158, 2016, 601-609. [pdf]

Kleinbub, C.K., ‘Jacopo Bellini and the Drawing of Idolatry’, in J. Cranston (ed) Venetian Painting Matters, 1450-1750, Turnhout, 2015, 21-34. [Academia]

Llewellyn, L. and Witty, J, Paolo Veneziano. Art & Devotion in 14th-Century Venice, New York, 2021. 17pp Extract [book preview]

Maguire, H. and Nelson, R.S. San Marco, Byzantium, and the Myths of Venice, Washington, DC, 2020. 71pp. [pdf]

Munk, A., ‘The Art of Relic Cults in Trecento Venice: Corpi sancti as a Pictorial Motif and Artistic Motivation’, Rad. Inst. povij. Umjet, 30, 2006, 81–92. [pdf]

Paciaroni, R., Il Polittico Sanseverinate si Paolo Veneziano, Città di San Severino Marche, 2018. 80pp [pdf]

Plaats, C. ‘“Mundus alter”: Paolo Veneziano (ca. 1290-1358/62) and the Insulated Pictorial World of Gothic Venice’, Conference presentation, Frick Collection-Institute of Fine Arts annual History of Art Symposium, 2014 [Academia]

Reuland, J.G. Music and Ritual in Venice and its Mediterranean Empire (1200-1500), PhD Thesis, Princeton, 2014. 314pp [pdf download]

Riccioni, S., ‘Per un progetto sui dipinti firmati di Venezia in età gotica e tardogotica’, Venezia Arte, 26, 2017, 65-69. [pdf]

Steadman, A., ‘Imperialism, Economics and Sacred Experience in the Golden Mosaics of San Marco’, Providence College Art Journal, 59-67. [pdf]

Verita, M. ‘Secrets and innovations of Venetian glass between the 15th and the 17th centuries: Raw materials, glass melting and artefacts’. [pdf]

Videos

Marco Polo Describes the Mongols // 13th cent. Primary Source (Voices of the Past) 13 minutes