Report on Internship at the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, by Gloria Moorman (CSR PhD candidate)

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:52:00 GMT

Valorization between Early Atlases and Island Books: October at the Biblioteca Correr, Venice. The conceptual links between two atlas projects, those of Joan Blaeu (1598/99-1673), active as cartographer in Amsterdam and official mapmaker to the Dutch East India Company (1638-73), and Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), Franciscan Friar and official cosmographer to the Republic of Venice, have formed a recurring and stimulating thread throughout the month I spent in Venice as an intern at the library of the Museo Correr.

The Charity of the Poor in Late Renaissance Venice by Dr Ioanna Iordanou (CSR Honorary Research Fellow)

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 12:39:28 GMT

The Venetian popolani were a social group distinct from the higher levels of Venetian society, namely the patricians – the Venetian ruling class – and the cittadini – the Venetian citizens. They comprised the mass of Venetian residents who enjoyed no legal status and were divided into two categories, the popolo minuto – the city’s workers – and the popolo grande – ‘the well-to-do commoners’, those who owned workshops, employed workers, and possessed property. Concerned with how the popolani contributed to the Venetian economy through their labour, a great deal of scholarly attention has been placed on their professional services.

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Report on Internship at the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, by Gloria Moorman (CSR PhD candidate)

The Charity of the Poor in Late Renaissance Venice by Dr Ioanna Iordanou (CSR Honorary Research Fellow)