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Commerce, Peace, and the Arts in Renaissance Venice - Ruzante and the Empire at Center Stage (Paperback)
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Commerce, Peace, and the Arts in Renaissance Venice - Ruzante and the Empire at Center Stage (Paperback)
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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
aspects of his life within the monumental changes taking place in
fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Venice, politically, economically,
socially, and artistically. In a study of patronage in the broadest
sense of the term, Linda Carroll draws on vast quantities of new
archival information; and by reading the previously unpublished
primary sources against each other, she uncovers remarkable and
heretofore unsuspected coincidences and connections. She documents
the well-known links between the increasingly fruitless trade to
the north and the need for new investments in land (re)gained by
Venice on the mainland, links between problems of governance and
political networks. She unveils the significance and potential
purposes of those who invited Ruzante to perform in what are
interpreted as "rudely" metaphorical truth-telling plays for
Venetians at the highest social and political levels. Focusing on a
group of patrons of art works in S. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, the
first chapter establishes their numerous interrelated commercial
and political interests and connects them to the content of the
works and artists chosen to execute them. The second chapter
demonstrates the economic interests and related political tensions
that lay behind the presence of many high-ranking government
officials at a scandalous 1525 Ruzante performance. It also draws
on these and materials concerning previous generations of the
Beolco family and Venetian patricians to provide an entirely new
picture of Beolco's relationships with his Venetian supporters. The
third chapter analyzes an important Venetian literary manuscript of
the period in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University whose
copyist had remained unknown and whose contents have been little
studied. The identity of the copyist, a central figure in the
worlds of theatrical and historical and, now, literary writing in
early sixteenth century Venice, is clarified and the works in the
manuscript connected to the cultural worlds of Venice, Padua and
Rome.
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