The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and Its Empire

ISBN-13: 9780192894571 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 448 str.

Patricia Brown

Opis

A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of powerful families in early modern Venice.

Recenzje

Fortini Brown's Venetian Bride is scrupulously researched, drawing on archival, printed, a sources in Venice, Crete, Udine, and elsewhere across the Italian mainland. Holly S. Hurlburt, North Carolina State University, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

O autorze

Patricia Fortini Brown, Professor Emerita at Princeton University, was Slade Professor of Fine Arts University of Cambridge in 2001 and served as president of the Renaissance Society of America. Honors and awards include Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships; the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome; the British Academy Serena Medal in Italian Studies; and the Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award from the Renaissance Society of America. A trustee of Save Venice, Inc., Brown has published extensively on Venetian art and culture. Her award-winning books include Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio (1998); Venice & Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past (1996); Art and Life in Renaissance Venice (1997); and Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (2004).