General

Jurdjevic, Mark, ‘Trust in Renaissance Electoral Politics’Link opens in a new window, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34 (2004), 601-14.

Muir, Edward, ‘The Sources of Civil Society in Italy’Link opens in a new window, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29 (1999), 379-406.

Venice

Andretta, Stefano, 'Giovani and vecchi: The Factionary Spirit in 16th and 17th Centuries Patrician Venice between Myth and Reality', in Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva and Alexander Koller (eds), A Europe of Courts, a Europe of FactionsLink opens in a new window (Leiden, 2017), pp. 176–96.

Bowd, Stephen D., ‘“The tune is marred”: Citizens and People in Gasparo Contarini's Venice’Link opens in a new window, European Review of History 7 (2000), 83-97.

Carroll, Linda L., ‘Carnival Rites as Vehicles of Protest in Renaissance Venice'Link opens in a new window, Sixteenth Century Journal 16 (1985), 487-502.

Chojnacki, S., ‘Social identity in Renaissance Venice: the second Serrata’, Renaissance Studies 8 (1994)

Chojnacki, S., Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician SocietyLink opens in a new window (Baltimore, 2000)

Cozzi, G., ‘Authority and the Law in Renaissance Venice’, in J.R. Hale (ed.), Renaissance Venice (London, 1973), pp. 293–345.

Datta, S., ‘The Enigmatic Republican State of Early Modern Venice: An Interpretation’, Studi veneziani (1999).

Finlay, R., ‘Fabius Maximus in Venice: Doge Andrea Gritti, the War of Cambrai, and the Rise of Habsburg Hegemony, 1509-1530’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 53.4 (2000), 988-1031.

Finlay, R., ‘The Venetian Republic as a Gerontocracy: Age and Politics in the Renaissance’, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 8 (1978), 157-78.

Finlay, R., Politics in Renaissance VeniceLink opens in a new window (New Brunswick, NJ, 1980).

van Gelder, Maartje, and Claire Judde de Larivière (eds), Popular Politics in an Aristocratic RepublicLink opens in a new window (London, 2020)

van Gelder, Maartje, and Filippo de Vivo, ‘Papering Over Protest: Contentious Politics and Archival Suppression in Early Modern VeniceLink opens in a new window’, Past & Present (2022)

Grendler, Paul F., ‘The Leaders of the Venetian State, 1540-1605: A Prosopographical Analysis’, Studi veneziani 19 (1990), 35-85.

Iordanou, Ioanna, 'What News on the Rialto? The Trade of Information and Early Modern Venice’s Centralized Intelligence OrganizationLink opens in a new window', Journal
Intelligence and National Security 31 (2016), 305-26.

Lowry, M.J.C., ‘The Reform of the Council of X, 1582-83: an unsettled problem?’, Studi veneziani 13 (1971), 275-310.

Mackenney, Richard, Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250-c. 1650Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Toronto, 2019)

Muir, Edward, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton, NJ, 1981)

Queller, D., The Venetian Patriciate: Reality versus MythLink opens in a new window (Urbana, IL, 1986).

Raines, Dorit, L’invention du mythe aristocratique. L’image de soi du patriciat vénitien au temps de la Sérénissime, 2 vols (Venice, 2006)

Raines, Dorit, ‘Office-seeking, broglio and the pocket political guide books in Cinquecento and Seicento Venice’, Studi veneziani 22 (1991), 137-94.

Romano, Dennis, The Likeness of Venice: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari 1373-1457 (New Haven, 2007)

Romano, D., Patricians and Popolani: the Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance State.

Vivo, Filippo de, Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics (Oxford, 2007)