Core Reading (see also the bibliographies for Government, Venice, Classicism and the East, and Patronage of the Visual Arts)

Chambers, David, and Brian Pullan (eds), Venice: A Documentary History 1450-1630 (Oxford, 1992; rept. Toronto, 2001), pp. 16-18, 55-61, 365-66, 400-01.

Wolters, Wolfgang, The Doge's Palace in Venice: A Tour through Art and History (Berlin and Munich, 2010)

E-resources

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