Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics

de Vivo, Filippo

ISBN 10: 0199227063 / ISBN 13: 9780199227068

Published by OUP Oxford, 2007

About this Item

Combining cultural, urban, and political history, this book assesses the extent to which communication and politics mutually influenced each other in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice, using a wide range of sources including including rumours, graffiti, spies' reports, council debates, leaks, and printed pamphlets. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: GTC; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 655. . 2007. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199227063
• ISBN 13: 9780199227068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Combining cultural, urban, and political history, this book assesses the extent to which communication and politics mutually influenced each other in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice, using a wide range of sources including rumors, graffiti, spies' reports, council debates, leaks, and printed pamphlets.

About the Author

Filippo de Vivo is the author of numerous scholarly articles on the history and historiography of the Republic of Venice. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was a Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and since 2003 has been a Lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, London.