Venetian rectors in Eastern Adriatic Cities (1204-1358): Networks and Mobility (original) (raw)
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Urban Elites of Zadar: Dalmatia and the Venetian Commonwealth, 1540-1569 (Rome: Viella, 2013)
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This book examines economic, geographical, and social mobility in the early modern Adriatic by focusing on the urban elites of Zadar during the crucial decades between the naval battles of Preveza (1538) and Lepanto (1571). The city, then known as Zara, was the nominal capital of Venice’s possessions in the Adriatic, and was a major hub for commerce, communication, and exchange. This case study aims at three aspects of everyday life along the frontiers of Latin Christianity during the apogee of Ottoman dominance in the Mediterranean. First, it analyses early modern communication, network density, and the protagonists’ interactions in the Adriatic. This analysis is based, for the first time, on procura contracts, resulting in a more nuanced picture of Venetian dominion. Next, it examines Zadar’s property markets in an investigation of the economic developments in Dalmatia during the sixteenth century. The third part focuses on the streets of Zadar and the interaction of its diverse inhabitants – nobles, citizens, residents, and foreigners alike. This book also uses a new conceptual approach of a Venetian Commonwealth, an entity based not only on hard power, allegiance, and domination, but also on cultural diffusion, shared knowledge, and collective experiences that shaped everyday life in all of Venice’s possessions. Sixteenth-century Zadar serves as an example of such a Venetian Commonwealth that encompassed the city itself, allowed for the inclusion of all neighbouring communities, and fit into the larger framework of the Republic of Venice.
Aspects of Venetian Sovereignty in Medieval and Renaissance Dalmatia
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The reader is forewarned that this paper (first published in 1996), which maintains the character of the original oral presentation, makes no attempt at covering completely such a vast subject, on which there is an extensive bibliography much of it in Serbo-Croatian, a language I do not know. My intent is simply to offer for discussion some little-exploited historical materials on well-known themes that exemplify contacts between the two coasts of the Adriatic Sea, especially but not only during the Quattrocento. Following an overview of the history of Venetian sovereignty in that part of the Stato da mar, attention will turn to aspects of politics and society, that is, to the political, financial and monetary administration of the subject territories and to the movement of people and peoples across the Adriatic.
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In the thirteenth century, in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, Venice became an important power in the Mediterranean, which caused profound change in its political, territorial and economic ambitions. The main strategy of Venice was to maintain the sea route from the northernmost point in the Adriatic to the Levant, and therefore it was crucial to dominate politically over the Eastern Adriatic: the cities there could serve as points of departure or safe harbours in which Venetian vessels could be sheltered and supplied with merchandise, food, water, and manpower. One of the ways to incorporate the Eastern Adriatic cities into a common area of governance was to construct recognizable public buildings, and to introduce and standardize a legal and administrative order that was mainly adapted to the central political entity, but also served the local urban communities. This paper follows the changes that were directly or indirectly mirrored in the urban structure of the cities during the thirteenth century: primarily the design of urban spaces (especially public ones) and the construction of public buildings linked to governance, defence, trade or administration. During the thirteenth century, one can follow the development of Venetian ambitions and their focus on particular areas or activities (economic, military) in the state, as well as the activities of Venetian patricians holding the governor's office. Naturally, the local circumstances and the local population had a crucial impact on the formation of urban space, but this paper focuses primarily on the role of the Venetian administration in this respect.
MEDITERRANEAN LANGUAGE REVIEW - ISSN:0724-7567 vol, pp.107-124. . 26, 2019
Nel nostro contributo ci siamo focalizzati su due aspetti della storia culturale dell’Albania settentrionale, l’uno relativo al modello di scrittura nel più antico testo a stampa (1554-1555), e l’altro invece al ruolo esercitato dal P. Vincenzo Basile, missionario gesuita in Albania, Croazia e Erzegovina, nello sviluppo e nella circolazione di testi nella prima metà del XIX secolo. Nel corso di una ricerca che punta allo studio e alla valorizzazione dell’antica letteratura di carattere religioso (XVI-XVII secolo) e alla riscoperta e edizione di altri testi fioriti in un periodo più recente (XIX sec.) e frutto dell’opera di missionari ed ecclesiastici, abbiamo riscontrato una significativa presenza di apporti di diversa natura, di modelli culturali ed elementi linguistici che riflettono la rete di intense relazioni sviluppatesi sui diversi versanti di questo peculiare bacino di congiunzione costituito dalle due rive adriatiche. L’Adriatico, più che un ostacolo, ha svolto infatti la funzione di un catalizzatore per i contatti tra le due sponde occidentali e orientali, permettendo che si perpetuasse nel tempo questa complessa dialettica culturale e storica.
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