E-resources

Map of the Stato da mar from the 15th to the 17th centuriesLink opens in a new window.

Map of Venetian expansion on the TerrafermaLink opens in a new window

Stato da marLink opens in a new window. An international project publishing the records of officials of the Stato da mar.

General Reading

The articles on the origins of the state in Italy, 1300-1600 in the supplement to The Journal of Modern History 67 (December, 1995)Link opens in a new window

Chittolini, Giorgio, 'Cities, "City-States," and Regional States in North-Central ItalyLink opens in a new window', Theory and Society 18/5 (1989), 689-706.

Scott, Tom, 'The Economic Policies of the Regional City-States of Renaissance Italy. Observations on a Neglected Theme', Quaderni storici 49/145 (2014), 219-263

Venice's Sea and Land Empires

Barzman, Karen, The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference (Leiden, 2017)

Beolco (Ruzante), Angelo, ‘The Moscheta / La moscheta’, trans. Antonio Franceschetti and Kenneth R. Bartlett in Renaissance Comedy: The Italian MastersLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, ed. Donald Beecher, 2 vols (Toronto, 2008-09), II, pp. 163-219.

Bowd, Stephen D., Venice's Most Loyal City: Civic Identity in Renaissance BresciaLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, Mass., 2010)

Camiz, Alessandro, Alessandro Bruccoleri, Seda Baydur, and Göksu Atmaca, 'Venetian defense in the Mediterranean: Nicosia's city walls, Cyprus (1567-1570), in Giorgio Verdiani (ed.), Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean XV to XVIII Centuries, Vol. III, (Florence, 2016), 363-370.

Carbone, Stefano (ed.), Venice and the Islamic world, 828-1797 (New Haven, 2007)

Christ, Georg, and Franz-Julius Morche, eds, Cultures of Empire: Rethinking Venetian Rule, 1400-1700: Essays in Honour of Benjamin ArbelLink opens in a new window (Leiden, 2020)

Cornaro, Alvise, Writings on the Sober Life: The Art and Grace of Living LongLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, trans. Hiroko Fudemoto (Toronto, 2018)

Faggion, Lucien, 'Violence, Rites and Social Regulation in the Venetian Terra Firma in the Sixteenth Century', in Jonathan Davies (ed.), Aspects of Violence in Renaissance EuropeLink opens in a new window (Farnham, 2013), pp. 185-204.

Gioia, Cristina, 'Aristocratic Bandits and Outlaws: Stories of Violence and Blood Vendetta on the Border of the Venetian Republic (16th-17th Century)Link opens in a new window', in Steven G. Ellis and Lud’a Klusáková (eds), Imaging Frontiers, Contesting Identities (Pisa, 2007), pp. 93-107.

Grubb, James, Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State (Baltimore, 1988)

Hale, J.R. (ed.), Renaissance Venice (London, 1973) [Especially the essays by Herlihy, Mallett, Rubinstein]

Hurlburt, Holly S., 'Body of Empire: Caterina Corner in Venetian History and IconographyLink opens in a new window', Early Modern Women 4 (2009), 61-99

Hurlburt, Holly S., Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance (New Haven, 2015)

Knapton, Michael, 'Land and Economic Policy in Later Fifteenth-Century Padua', in Michael Knapton, John E. Law, Alison A. Smith (eds), Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin Kohl Link opens in a new window(Florence, 2014), pp. 197-257.

Knapton, Michael, Una Repubblica di Uomini: Saggi di storia veneta, ed. Andrea Gardi, Gian Maria Varanini, and Andrea Zannini (Udine, 2017) [See especially the essay 'City Wealth and State Wealth in Northeast Italy, 14th-17th Centuries' pp. 237-66 and the Bibliography]

Knapton, Michael, 'Venice and the Terraferma', in Andrea Gamberini and Isabella Lazzarini (eds), The Italian Renaissance StateLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 132-55. Dawson e-book

Kohl, Benjamin G., Culture and Politics in Early Renaissance Padua (Aldershot, 2002)

Kohl, Benjamin G., 'Renaissance Padua as Kunstwerk: Policy and Custom in the Governance of a Renaissance City', in Michael Knapton, John E. Law, Alison A. Smith (eds), Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin KohlLink opens in a new window (Florence, 2014), pp. 187-96.

Lane, F.C., Venice: A Maritime RepublicLink opens in a new window (Baltimore, 1973).

Law, John E., Venice and the Veneto in the Early Renaissance (Aldershot, 2000)

Libby, Lester J., Jr., ‘The Reconquest of Padua in 1509 according to the Diary of Girolamo Priuli’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 28 (1975), 323-31.

Mallett, M.E., and J.R. Hale, The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State: Venice ca. 1400-1617 (Cambridge, 1984)

Nicol, Donald M., Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural RelationsLink opens in a new window (Cambridge,1988)

O'Connell, Monique, 'Legitimating Venetian Expansion: Patricians and Secretaries in the Fifteenth Century', Michael Knapton, John E. Law, Alison A. Smith (eds), Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin KohlLink opens in a new window (Florence, 2014), pp. 71-85

O’Connell, Monique, Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime StateLink opens in a new window (Baltimore, 2009)

O'Connell, Monique, 'Voluntary Submission and the Ideology of Venetian Empire' I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 20 (2017), 9-39.

Palladio, Andrea, The Four Books on ArchitectureLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (Cambridge, Mass., 1997)

Roberts, Sean, 'The Lost Map of Matteo de' Pasti: Cartography, Diplomacy, and Espionage in the Renaissance Adriatic,' Journal of Early Modern History 20 (2016), 19-38.

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