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Beck, H.-G, et al. (eds), Venezia. Centro di Mediazione tra Oriente e Occidente (secoli XV- XVI). Aspetti e Problemi (Florence, 1977)

Botticini, Maristella, 'A Tale of "Benevolent" Governments: Private Credit Markets, Public Finance, and the Role of Jewish Lenders in Medieval and Renaissance Italy', The Journal of Economic History 60 (2000), 164-89. JSTOR

Bowd, Stephen, 'Civic Piety and Patriotism: Patrician Humanists and Jews in Venice and Its Empire,' Renaissance Quarterly 69.4 (2016), 1257-1295.

Burke, Ersie C., 'Francesco di Demetri Litino, the Inquisition and the Fondaco dei Turchi'

Burke, Ersie C., The Greeks of Venice, 1498-1600 : Immigration, Settlement and Integration (Turnhout, 2016)

Burke, Ersie C., 'Our Daughters and Our Future: Elite Greco–Venetian Marriages, 1520 – 1610'

Burke, Ersie C., 'Surviving Exile: Byzantine Families and the Serenissima 1453 – 1600', in Ingela Nilsson & Paul Stephenson (eds), Wanted: Byzantium. The Desire for a Lost Empire (Uppsala, 2014), pp. 109–32

Burke, Ersie, C., '"To Live Under the Protection of Your Serenity": Immigration and Identity in Early Modern Venice', Studi veneziani 67 (2013), 123-55

Burke, Ersie C., '"Your Humble and Devoted Servants": Greco-Venetian Views of the Serenissima'

Calabi, Donatella, ‘Gli stranieri e la città’, in Storia di Venezia, vol. 5, Il Rinascimento. Società ed economia, ed. Alberto Tenenti and Ugo Tucci (Rome, 1996)

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Calabi, Donatella, et al., La città degli Ebrei. Il ghetto di Venezia, architettura e urbanistica (Venice, 1991)

Calimani, R., Storia del Ghetto di Venezia (Milan, 1985)

Clarke, Paula, 'The Identity of the Expatriate: Florentines in Venice in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries', in William J. Connell (ed.), Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence (Berkeley, 2002), pp. 384-408. NetLibrary

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Davis, Robert C., Christian slaves, Muslim masters : white slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Basingstoke, 2003)

Davis, Robert C., and Benjamin Ravid, (eds), The Jews of Early Modern Venice (Baltimore, 2001)

De Maria, Blake, Becoming Venetian: immigrants and the arts in early modern Venice (New Haven, 2010)

Dursteler, Eric R., 'Speaking in Tongues: Language and Communication in the Early Modern Mediterranean,' Past & Present 217 (2012): 47-77

Fedalto, G., Ricerche storiche sulla posizione giuridica ed ecclesiastica dei Greci a Venezia nei secoli XV e XVI (Florence, 1967)

Fletcher, Catherine, The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici (London, 2016)

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Hermet, Aleramo, and Paola Cogni Ratti di Desio, La Venezia degli Armeni: sedici secoli, tra storia e leggenda (Milan, 1993)

Gow, Andrew , and Gordon Griffiths, 'Pope Eugenius IV and Jewish Money-Lending in Florence: The Case of Salomone di Bonaventura during the Chancellorship of Leonardo Bruni', Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994), 282-32. JSTOR

Ioly Zorattini, P. C,.'Jews, Crypto-Jews and the Inquisition,' in Davis and Ravid, The Jews of Early Modern Venice, pp. 97–116.

Lowry, M.J.C., ‘The social world of Nicholas Jensen and John of Cologne’, Bibliofilia (1981).

Lowry, M.J.C., Nicholas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance Europe (Oxford, 1990)

Lowry, M.J.C., Venetian Capital, German Technology and Renaissance Culture in the Later Fifteenth Century, Renaissance Studies 2.1 (1988), 1–13.

Lupprian, Karl-Ernst, Il Fondaco dei tedeschi e la sua funzione di controllo del commercio tedesco a Venezia (Venice, 1978)

Molà, Luca, La communità dei Lucchesi a Venezia (Venice, 1994)

Molà, Luca, and Mueller, Reinhold C., ‘Essere straniero a Venezia nel tardo Medioevo: accoglienza e rifiuto nei privilegi di cittadinanza e nelle sentenze criminali’, in Simonetta Cavaciocchi (ed.), Le migrazioni in Europa. Secc. XIII-XVIII (Florence, 1994), pp. 839-51.

Mueller, Reinhold, ‘Mercanti e imprenditori fiorentini a Venezia nel tardo medioevo’, Società e Storia 54 (1992), 29-60.

Mueller, Reinhold, '"Veneti facti privilegio": stranieri naturalizzati a Venezia, 1300-1500', in P. Lanaro and D. Calabi (eds), La città e i luoghi degli stranieri: Italia XIV-XVIII secolo (Bari, 1998), pp. 41-51

Mueller, Reinhold, 'Venezia e i primi schiavi neri', Archivio veneto, fifth series, 113 (1979): 139‑42.

Mueller, Reinhold, 'The Jewish Moneylenders of Late Trecento Venice: A Revisitation,' Mediterranean Historical Review 10 (1995), 202–17.

Origo, Iris, 'The Domestic Enemy: The Eastern Slaves in Tuscany in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries', Speculum 30/3 (1955), 321-66. JSTOR

Pertusi, A., (ed.), Venezia e l’Oriente fra tardo Medioevo e Rinascimento (Florence, 1966)

Pignatti, T., ‘The relationship between German and Venetian painting’ in J.R. Hale (ed.), Renaissance Venice (London, 1973)

Preto, P., Venezia e i Turchi (Florence, 1975)

Ravid, Benjamin, ‘From yellow to red: On the distinguishing head-covering of the Jews of Venice’, Jewish History 6 (1992), 179-210 Springer Link

Ravid, Benjamin, ‘The First Charter of the Jewish Merchants of Venice, 1589’, AJS Review 1 (1976), 187-222. JSTOR

Ravid, Benjamin, Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382-1797 (Aldershot, 2003)

Ravid, Benjamin, 'The Venetian Government and the Jews,' in R. C. Davis and B. Ravid, eds., The Jews of Early Modern Venice (Baltimore, 2001), pp. 3–30.

Rosenthal, David, '"Every Sort of Manual Type, and Mostly Foreigners": Migrants, Brothers and Festive Kings in Early Modern Florence', Urban History 37:3 (2010): 360-71.

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Tenenti, A., 'Gli schiavi di Venezia alla fine del cinquecento', Rivista storica italiana 57 (1955), 52-69.

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Van Gelder, Maartje, Trading Places: the Netherlandish merchants in early modern Venice (Leiden, 2009)

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Venezia e i Turchi. Scontri e confronti di due civiltà (Milan, 1985)

Venezia e la Germania: Arte, politica, commercio, due civiltà a confronto (Milan, 1987)