Main entry:

Fenlon, Iain.

Title & Author:

The ceremonial city : history, memory and myth in renaissance Venice / Iain Fenlon.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.

Description:

xv, 448 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-435) and index.
Part One: The ceremonial city. 1. Constructing a civic religion -- 2. Praesentia and identity -- 3. Theatre of the world -- 4. The sacral prince -- Part Two: A disquieting decade. 5. A holy crusade -- 6. Victory at Lepanto -- 7. His most Christian majesty -- 8. The hand of God -- Part Three: History, memory and myth. 9. Republic of letters, city of books -- 10. Ritual transformations -- 11. Gods and heroes -- 12. Christ's victory.

Summary:

"At the heart of the book is a detailed account of four major events that significantly shaped the history of Venice, the formation of the Holy League (the coalition that brought the republic into conflict with the Ottoman Empire): the victory of that League against the Turkish fleet at the battle of Lepanto; the ceremonial arrangements that were made to welcome Henry III of France to the city in 1574; and the devasting plague of 1575-7." "This central part is frame by two others. The first concentrates on St. Mark's Square, the buildings that surround it and the social and religious life that used it as a backdrop. This involves reconstruction of the historical and mythical events that gradually led to the elaboration, by Jacopo Sansovino and others, of a monumental civic arena invested with layers of meaning that were fundamental to a sense of Venetian identity. The final section considers how the major events of the 1570s, and above all the victory at Lepanto, were metabolized in Venetian history and reconfigured in the realms of memory and myth. Important factors in this process were the role of the printing press (Venice lay at the heart of the Italian booktrade) in disseminating accounts of current events and reworking them into a further elaborator of the Myth of Venice, and the ritual and other transformations that took place (such as the construction of Palladio's church of the Redentore), and their connection to the religious matrix that provides the key to the civic ethos of the city in the late sixteenth century. Venice had become the City of God."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780300119374 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300119372 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Rites and ceremonies Political aspects Italy Venice.
City planning Italy Venice History.
Architecture and society Italy Venice History.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Venice.
Rites et cérémonies Aspect politique Italie Venise.
Architecture et société Italie Venise Histoire.
Architecture and society.
Christian art and symbolism.
City planning.
Rites and ceremonies Political aspects.
Fest
Kultur
Repräsentation
Ritual
Zeremonie
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Venice (Italy) History 1508-1797.
Venice (Italy) Religious life and customs.
Venise (Italie) Histoire 1508-1797.
Italy Venice.
Venedig
Venetien
Geschichte 1400-1600

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258709
Call No.: BIB 189501
Status: Available