Firstborn of Venice : Vicenza in the early Renaissance state

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Firstborn of Venice : Vicenza in the early Renaissance state

James S. Grubb

(The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, 106th ser., 3)

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1988

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First-born of Venice

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Bibliography: p. 189-230

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Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Originally published in 1988. In the decades after 1404, traditionally maritime Venice extended its control over much of northern Italy. Citizens of Vicenza, the first city to come under Venetian rule, proclaimed their city "firstborn of Venice" and a model for the Venetian Republic's dominions on the terraferma. In Firstborn of Venice James Grubb tests commonplace attributes of the Renaissance state through a rich case study of society and politics in fifteenth-century Vicenza. Looking at relations between Venetian and local governments and at the location of power in Vicentine society, Grubb reveals the structural limitations of Venetian authority and the mechanisms by which local patricians deflected the claims of the capital. Firstborn of Venice explores issues that are political in the broadest sense: legal institutions and administrative practices, fiscal politics, the consolidation of elites, ecclesiastical management, and the contrasting governing ideologies of ruler and subjects.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Making of the Composite State Chapter 1. Creating the Territorial State Chapter 2. Definitions of State Chapter 3. Dominion and Law Chapter 4. Dominion and Empire Part II. Privileged Commune, Commune of the Privileged Chapter 5. Commune and Governor Chapter 6. Commune and countryside Chapter 7. Affirmation of the Patriciate Chapter 8. Consolidation of the Patriciate Part III. Center and Periphery Chapter 9. Pacification and Security Chapter 10. Fisc and Army Chapter 11. Piety and Morals Chapter 12. Appeals and Their Limits Chapter 13. Reconstructing Local Prerogatives Part IV. The Renaissance Venetian State Chapter 14. Unity and Particularism Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Index

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