With the Paduan playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this book sheds new light on his oeuvre and times—and on Venetian patrician interest in him—by embedding the Venetian aspec
Taking as axiomatic the concept that artistic output does not simply reflect culture but also shapes it, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection take a holistic approach to the cultural fashio
The work of diarist and historian Marin Sanudo has long been mined by scholars of the Renaissance, Reformation and the history of his home of Venice. Now his work has been edited by the late scholar L
