Venice Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
	List of Contributors
	List of Illustrations
Pt. I	General Descriptions	1
1	Praise of the city of Venice, 1493	4
2	A pilgrim's impressions, 1480	21
3	Sansovino on building-materials and techniques	23
4	The English ambassador's notes, 1612	26
5	The dominions of the Venetian Republic: a report by the Spanish ambassador, c.1618	31
Pt. II	Authority and Government	37
1	Contarini's picture of perfection: the Senate	41
2	The Signoria 'in Pien Collegio'	43
3	The Doge	45
4	Elder statesmen: the Procurators of St. Mark's	51
5	Watchdogs and public prosecutors: the Avogadori di Comun, 1515	52
6	The Courts of the Forty	53
7	State security and arbitrary power: the Council of Ten	54
8	The Great Council: procedure and function	57
9	The Chancery	59
10	Florentine admiration for Venice's system of government	61
11	Public spectacle	63
12	Benedetto Dei's invective against Venice, c.1472	68
13	Radical proposals (c.1500) by an aged patrician (Domenico Morosini)	70
14	Indignities of the Dogeship	71
15	Corrupt practices	77
16	Breaches of official secrecy	80
17	Opposition in the 1580s	81
Pt. III	Law, Order and Social Policy	85
1	Crimes of violence and their punishment	88
2	Crimes of state	91
3	Opinions about judicial and penal administration	97
4	Food for the city	105
5	The struggle against plague	113
6	The defence of morality	120
Pt. IV	Public and Private Wealth	131
1	The valuation of houses and land, 1459	136
2	Levying the tenth, 1463	137
3	Revenues of the Venetian government in 1469	139
4	The sale of minor offices, 1510	143
5	The hazards of speculating on customs duties, 1528-9	144
6	Restrictions on the transfer of property to religious uses, 1536	144
7	Clerical taxation: the grant by Pope Paul III, 1544	146
8	Two mercers make a tax return, 1554	147
9	Revenue of the Venetian Republic in 1587, 1594 and 1602	148
10	Expenditure of the Venetian Republic in 1587, 1594 and 1602	153
11	The establishment of a state loan fund, 1482	158
12	Investment in public loan fund and in land, 1509	160
13	The repayment of public debt, 1577-84	162
14	The abundance of good things in Venice	167
15	The establishment of a board of trade, 1507	168
16	Indebtedness and business failure, c.1500	169
17	The activities and misfortunes of a merchant family, the Zane, 1524-50	171
18	Letter of a merchant in Aleppo, 1551	174
19	Failure of a bank, 1584	174
20	An agreement to establish a merchant partnership, 1596	175
21	A magistracy to administer sumptuary laws, 1515	178
22	The regulation of banquets, 1562	178
23	Regulation of the wearing of pearls, 1562	179
24	Living well: supper and conversation in Titian's house	180
25	Living poorly: the squalid lodgings of Anton Francesco Doni, 1550	181
Pt. V	'The Present Face of Religion here'	183
1	Elections of parish clergy, c.1460, 1517	187
2	The earthquake of 1511 and the purging of sin and misbelief	188
3	The clergy and musicians of St. Mark's, 1581, 1626	190
4	The churches of Venice and the education of the clergy, 1604, 1612	193
5	An English Protestant looks at Venetian religious life, 1608	195
6	Splendour and worldliness: Santi Giovanni c Paolo in the 1480s	198
7	Laxity and strict observance: the reform of nunneries, 1519-21	199
8	Foundation of a magistracy responsible for convents, 1521	203
9	Abuses in the convent of San Zaccaria, 1528, 1585	204
10	Monks, friars and nuns, c.1580	206
11	The rule of a lay fraternity, 1535	210
12	Criticism of the Scuole Grandi, 1541	213
13	A smith's rebellion against the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, 1555	216
14	The Interdict of Pope Sixtus IV, 1482	219
15	The contest for preferments, 1533	221
16	The Apostolic Visitation, 1580-1	223
17	The Interdict of Pope Paul V, 1606	225
18	The Jesuits, 1619	227
19	The appointment of three noblemen to attend the Inquisition, 1547, 1551	229
20	An Anabaptist synod in Venice, 1550	230
21	Veronese before the Inquisition, 1573	232
22	Magic and superstition, c.1580	236
Pt. VI	Social Orders	239
1	The life cycle and family arrangements	243
2	Service to the state	254
3	Nobles, citizens and people in Venice, c.1618	257
4	The life cycle and family arrangements	263
5	The citizens, the popolo and the state	268
6	Service to the state	272
7	Citizenship by privilege	276
8	The craft and wares of the mercers, 1446	281
9	Charity, ritual and work: the charcoal-bearers, 1479	285
10	The boatmen of San Toma	286
11	The craft and the brotherhood: master bakers and German assistants, 1543	287
12	The protest of the Arsenal craftsmen, 1581	289
13	The porters at the Arsenal, 1586-8	291
14	Craftsmen as oarsmen: manning the reserve fleet, 1595	293
Pt. VII	Charity and the Poor	295
1	The charities of Venice, 1497	299
2	The hospitals of Venice, c.1500	302
3	The general scheme for poor relief, 1529	303
4	An indulgence for a Venetian hospital, 1487	307
5	The hospital of the Incurabili, 1522, 1539	308
6	Foundlings and orphans	310
7	Responsibilities of the Mendicanti and other hospitals, 1619	314
8	The poor brothers of the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, 1478	316
9	Requests for aid from the Scuole Grandi, 1558-93	317
10	The shamefaced poor, 1596	320
Pt. VIII	'Most of their People are Foreigners'	323
1	German merchants and the exchange house, 1475	328
2	House rules for the new Fondaco dei Tedeschi, 1508	329
3	Heresy and irreligion among the Germans of Venice, c.1580	330
4	Auctioning the Black Eagle inn, 1630	331
5	The church and the Scuola at San Biagio in Castello, 1470, 1498	333
6	The church of San Giorgio dei Greci, 1511	334
7	A preacher censured for attacking the Greeks, 1596	336
8	The 'Geto at San Hieronimo', 1516	338
9	The conversion of a Jew to Christianity, c.1569	339
10	Licence for a Jewish physician, 1589	340
11	Moneylending and the second-hand trade, 1624	342
12	Levantine Jews and the Ghetto Vecchio, 1541	344
13	Motives for expelling the Marranos, 1550	345
14	The charter of the Jewish merchants, 1589	346
15	House rules for the new Fondaco dei Turchi, 1621	350
Pt. IX	Cultural Life: Learning and Literature, Book-Publishing, Entertainment	353
1	The origins of St. Mark's library: Cardinal Bessarion's gift, 1468	357
2	Humanist historiography for Venice: a justification, 1487	359
3	The impact of printing: Aldus's workshop as an intellectual centre	360
4	The Rialto School of philosophy in session, 1524	361
5	Bembo's acknowledgement of Tuscan superiority in language	361
6	The establishment of schools in the sestieri, 1551	362
7	The Venetian Academy and its programme of universal knowledge, 1560	364
8	Sarpi's presence in intellectual circles, c.1600	367
9	A contract between two Germans to print Bibles, 1478	370
10	Copyright legislation to protect Sabellicus's History of Venice, 1486	371
11	Two partners petition for copyright to print classical Greek authors, 1497	372
12	Jacopo de'Barbari's panoramic view of Venice: petition for copyright, 1500	373
13	Business records of Aldus Manutius and Andrea di Asola, 1500-1	373
14	The printing of music: a composer in search of an agent, 1536	374
15	The Statues of the Modesti, a Company of the Hose, 1487	377
16	Comedies sponsored by a Company of the Hose during Carnival, 1525	380
17	Entertainment in the Doge's Palace during Carnival, 1526	380
18	Role reversal: masquerades during Carnival, 1533	381
19	Aquatic spectacle: a mock naval battle, 1530	381
20	Commissions for verse and music, 1534	382
21	Reopening of theatres after the Interdict, 1607	382
Pt. X	The Visual Arts	385
1	Literary praise for art and artists	390
2	Secular commissions and political imagery	393
3	Art in the service of diplomacy	405
4	Art in conflict with government	408
5	Art for confraternities and churches	410
6	An overseas order for a devotional picture, 1473	418
7	Doge Agostino Barbarigo's altarpiece	418
8	Lotto alters a portrait to please a friend, 1542	419
9	Lotto paints his landlord's family, 1547	420
10	Sacred and profane pictures for the King of Spain, 1554	421
11	Doge Marino Grimani orders marble sculpture for his tomb, 1601	422
12	Andrea Odoni's collection, 1532	424
13	A problem of attribution, 1529	427
14	Gabriel Vendramin describes and justifies his collection, 1548	428
15	Architectural style for the Duke of Milan's house in Venice, 1461	429
16	A comparison of Giovanni Bellini with later painters	431
17	Aretino encourages and criticizes Tintoretto, 1548	431
18	Palladio criticized in a dispute with the Scuola dei Mercanti, 1572	432
19	The property of a prosperous and literate painter, 1461	435
20	Durer's comments on Venetian artists, 1506	437
21	A painter's day-to-day expenses, 1541	438
22	Lotto takes an apprentice, 1548	439
23	The elderly Titian at work	440
24	A sculptor orders his own tomb, 1576	441
	References	443
	Glossary	460
	Index	465