Schedule

Week 1 Introduzione storica

Letture

Patricia Fortini Brown, “Venezianità: The Otherness of the Venetians,” in Art and Life in Renaissance Venice (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997), 9-37

Elizabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Venice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth, Baltimore-London: John Hopkins University Press, 2002, Ch. 2: “A City Wed to the Sea”, pp. 46-96.

Week 2 - La stampa a Venezia - i poligrafi e gli editori

Reading

Libraria, Anton Francesco Doni

Week 3 - La novella

Reading

Cento novelle scelte da i più nobili scrittori - Francesco Sansovino (1561)

Week 4 - Venice and its minorities

Readings

Joanne M. Ferraro, Venice: History of the Floating City, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, Ch. 4, pp. 75-105

Benjamin Ravid, “Venice and its minorities”, in Eric Dursteler (ed.), A Companion to Venetian

History, 1400–1797, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013, pp. 449-71 & 482-4.

- Molly Greene, The Edinburg History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire, Edinburg:

Edinburg University Press, 2015, pp. 96-101.

- Molly Greene, Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, ‘Venetian Decline’, pp. 29-3

Richard Sennet, Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization, New York-London: Norton, 1994, Ch. 7: “Fear of Touching: The Jewish Ghetto in Renaissance Venice”, pp. 212-53.

Robert C. Davis and Benjamin Ravid (eds), The Jews of Early Modern Venice, “Introduction”, Ch. 1 & 2, pp. 1-49.

Week - Mapping the Serenissima

Readings

Denis Cosgrove, "Mapping New Worlds: Culture and Cartography in Sixteenth-Century Venice," in Imago Mundi, Vol. 44 (1992), 65-89

Comentario de le cose de' Turchi - Paolo Giovio (1530)

Week 4 - Beyond the Laguna

Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the city's mariners had discovered before the Spanish, a world linked to Marco Polo's China, or another version of Venice.

Readings

G.B. Ramusio, Delle Navigationi et viaggi, Giunti, 1606 ed. (see images 700-713) for "Relatione della navigatione & scoperta, che fece il Capitano Fernando Alarchone, per ordine dello Illustrissimo Signor Don Antonio Mendozza. . .")

P. Bembo, Della historia vinitiana di M. Pietro Bembo Card. volgarmente scritta. Libri XII, In Vinegia : [Appresso Gualtero Scotto], 1552, selections from book 6.

Week 5 Narrare Venezia nel Cinquecento - le forme brevi: la lettera

Il primo e il secondo libro delle lettere - Pietro Aretino (1538 ) (selezioni)

Week 6

Pietro Bembo, Lettere

"Discorso della commodità dello scrivere" in Della nuova scielta di lettere di diversi nobilissimi uomini ed eccellentissimi ingegni - Bernardo Pino (1574)

Week 7 Venice and the Stato da Terra: Venetian Works of Defense

Palmanova

Week 12 Mass Tourism

Read one of the following articles and be prepared to summarize it in class

Bertocchi D. and Visentin F. “The Overwhelmed City: Physical and Social Over-Capacities of Global Tourism in Venice”, Sustainability 11, 2019, 6937.

Michele Vianello, “The No Grandi Navi campaign: protests against cruise tourism in Venice”, in Claire Colomb, Johannes Novy, Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City, Routledge, 2017

pp. 171-190.

Zanini S., "Tourism pressures and depopulation in Cannaregio: Effects of mass tourism on Venetian cultural heritage", Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Soustinable Development, 7-2, 2017, pp. 164-178.

Week 13 The Climate Crisis

In class screening of 60 Minutes, "Venice is Drowning."