Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

Grubb, Professor James S.

ISBN 10: 0801836131 / ISBN 13: 9780801836138

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988

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Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1988, 1st edition/1st printing, clean/tight, No marks/tears or other defects; Fine/Fine (like New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Firstborn of Venice: Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801836131
• ISBN 13: 9780801836138
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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  • History: Europe

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Synopsis

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Originally published in 1988. In the decades after 1404, traditionally maritime Venice extended its control over much of northern Italy. Citizens of Vicenza, the first city to come under Venetian rule, proclaimed their city "firstborn of Venice" and a model for the Venetian Republic's dominions on the terraferma.

In Firstborn of Venice James Grubb tests commonplace attributes of the Renaissance state through a rich case study of society and politics in fifteenth-century Vicenza. Looking at relations between Venetian and local governments and at the location of power in Vicentine society, Grubb reveals the structural limitations of Venetian authority and the mechanisms by which local patricians deflected the claims of the capital. Firstborn of Venice explores issues that are political in the broadest sense: legal institutions and administrative practices, fiscal politics, the consolidation of elites, ecclesiastical management, and the contrasting governing ideologies of ruler and subjects.

About the Author

James S. Grubb is professor of history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is the author of Provincial Families in the Renaissance, also available form Johns Hopkins.