The Venetian Bride

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Fortini Brown
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Council Of Trent ◽  
True Story ◽  
Pietro Bembo ◽  
Feudal Lord ◽  
Imperial Politics ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Early Modern Venice ◽  
Venetian Republic

A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation in early modern Venice, this book focuses on the marriage between the feudal lord Count Girolamo Della Torre and Giulia Bembo, daughter of a powerful Venetian senator and grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo. Exiled to Crete for pursuing vendetta to avenge the murder of his father, Girolamo marries Giulia with the aim of enlisting her father as a powerful ally. Thus begins a challenging itinerary that leads from the Mediterranean back to Venice and its mainland territories in the Veneto and the Patria del Friuli. It plays out against a backdrop of the birth of ten children, the Council of Trent, papal and imperial politics, the rise of Girolamo’s brother Michele to the cardinalate, the Ottoman threat, and the golden age of Venetian art. Once a pawn in a marital strategy that failed, Giulia is celebrated after her death with the first independent biography of an ordinary woman published in Italy. The fortunes and misfortunes of the Della Torre bloodline, which survived the end of the Venetian Republic in 1797, are emblematic of a change in feudal culture from clan solidarity to individualism and intrafamily strife, and ultimately redemption. This epic tale opens a precious window into a contentious period in which Venetian republican values clash with the deeply rooted feudal traditions of honour and blood feuds of the mainland.

The Venetian Mediterranean Empire after the Council of Trent

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 467-477
Author(s):  
A. D. Wright
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Council Of Trent ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
Venetian Republic ◽  
Christian Population

In the period from the conclusion of the Tridentine Council in 1563 to the Turkish conquest of Crete in 1669 the Venetian Republic feared for its sovereignty over its Mediterranean possessions. These stretched from Istria, along the Dalmatian littoral, to the islands of Corfu and Zante. Cyprus was lost to the Turks from 1570, despite the Christian maritime victory at Lepanto subsequently. Venetian relations with the papacy were also strained after the Council of Trent, not only in the exceptional and dramatic circumstances of the Interdict of 1606-7. Defence of both Crete and the other remaining Mediterranean possessions was thus complicated by Venetian anxiety over Ottoman power on the one hand and concern at papal policy on the other. From the end of the Tridentine Council to the Interdict, and indeed beyond, Venice insisted on its role as a devoutly Catholic state, claiming from the papacy the concession of decime, paid by the clergy of the Republic, to sustain its defence of Christendom against militant Islam. But the Republic also resisted Roman suggestions that Catholic belief and practice were insecure or in need of reform within its territories. In the Mediterranean possessions, however, the presence of a Greek Christian population represented a particular problem.

Little Worlds in Motion: Mobility and Space in the Osterie of Early Modern Venice

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 96-117
Author(s):  
Rosa Salzberg
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Early Modern Venice ◽  
The City

Abstract The inns, or osterie, of early modern Venice were located at the heart of the city, which was one the most important hubs of mobility and travel between Europe and the Mediterranean. Close study of the locations, structures, and interiors of the inns shows how they featured centrally in both the long-range itineraries of travelers and migrants as well as smaller-scale circulations of local residents around the city. The intersection of these various trajectories in the space of the inn led to a rich array of social, economic, and cultural exchanges, but also to moments of tension and conflict. As such, a focus on the osterie illuminates the experience of being on the move in this period as well as demonstrating how mobility fundamentally shaped, and was shaped by, the early modern city and its spaces.

SEX AND CELIBACY IN EARLY MODERN VENICE

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY LAVEN
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Council Of Trent ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Modern Venice

This article explores the nature of relationships formed between nuns and male clergy in early modern Venice. It is based on the records of trials for the violation of conventual enclosure, the principle at the centre of the reforms of nunneries decreed by the Council of Trent, which aspired to sever all links between nuns and the world outside the cloister. The trials offer detailed insights into the interactions of male and female celibates, whose relationships were frequently monogamous, long-term, and intense, although rarely overtly sexual. I argue that the constraints of enclosure conditioned the nature of celibate desire, promoting a model of heterosocial engagement in which bodily intimacy was surprisingly unimportant.

Leakage, Contagion, and Containment in Early Modern Venice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Pon
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Early Modern Venice ◽  
The City

Two well-known architectural types of enclosure in early modern Venice – the Jewish Ghetto and the plague hospitals or lazaretti – are examined within the spatial dynamics of quarantine and the larger geographic sphere of the Mediterranean. Architectural and urbanistic mechanisms for maintaining purity against influences the Christian Venetians understood as harmful, the ghetto and the lazaretto worked to visually recognize, bureaucratically identify, and physically seclude ‘dangerous’ individuals. Both were also porous: the ghetto was open to all during daytime hours, when Jews were also allowed to exit into the city, and the lazaretto’s population grew and shrank as new people sickened and patients recovered or died. This ‘leakage’ broke through any ideal of containment, and could be productive, benign or malign.

The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-237
Author(s):  
Dana E. Katz (book author) ◽  
Christopher F. Black (review author)
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Visual Imagination ◽  
Early Modern Venice
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