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Origins and Myths

See also the bibliography and e-resources for the Torcello site visitLink opens in a new window.

Contarini, Gasparo, The Commonwealth and Government of VeniceLink opens in a new window, trans. Lewis Lewkenor (London, 1599)

Crouzet-Pavan, E., “Towards an Ecological Understanding of the Myth of Venice', in John Martin and Dennis Romano (eds), Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City State, 1297-1797Link opens in a new window (Baltimore, 2000), pp. 39-67.

Crouzet-Pavan, E., Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth (Baltimore, 2005).

Dursteler, Eric A., 'Introduction: A Brief Survey of Histories of Venice', in Eric R. Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian History 1400-1797Link opens in a new window (Leiden, 2013), pp. 1-24.

Finlay, R., 'The Immortal Republic: The Myth of Venice During the Italian Wars (1494- 1530)', Sixteenth Century Journal 30/4 (1999), 931-44.

Fortini Brown, P., Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past (New Haven, 1996).

Fortini Brown, P., ‘How Renaissances happened in Venice’ in Alison Brown (ed.), Language and Images of Renaissance Italy (Oxford, 1995), pp. 127-54.

Grubb, J., 'When Myths Lose Power: Four Decades of Venetian Historiography', Journal of Modern History 58 (1986): 43-94.

McPherson, David, 'Lewkenor's Venice and Its SourcesLink opens in a new window', Renaissance Quarterly 41/3 (1988), 459-66

Martin, J. and Romano, D., 'Reconsidering Venice', in John Martin and Dennis Romano (eds), Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City State, 1297-1797Link opens in a new window (Baltimore, 2000), pp. 1-38.

Muir, Edward, ‘Images of Power: Art and Pageantry in Renaissance VeniceLink opens in a new window’, American Historical Review 84 (1979), 16-52.

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

Ravid, Benjamin, 'Between the Myth of Venice and the Lachrymose Conception of Jewish History: The Case of the Jews of Venice,' in Benjamin Ravid, Studies on the Jews of Venice (Aldershot, 2003).

Robey, D., and J. Law, ‘The Venetian Myth and the ‘De Republica veneta’ of Pier Paolo Vergerio’, Rinascimento 25 (1975), 3-59.

Rosand, D., Myths of Venice. The Figuration of a State (Chapel Hill, NC, 2001)

Rosand, Ellen, ‘Music in the Myth of VeniceLink opens in a new window’, Renaissance Quarterly 30 (1977), 511-537. JSTOR