The course will analyze the evolution of the Venetian patriciate as the governing class of the Serenissima. The aim is to understand the internal transformations and family strategies of these power groups.
Course Prerequisites
A good cognisance of the Early Modern History
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Assessment Methods
The preparation of the students will be evaluated through an oral test during which they will have to demonstrate that they have understood the themes developed during the course.
Texts
Recommended bibliography for the scholars For the assiduously participants of the course (at least two thirds of the lessons) the lecture of this texts -Gullino, Giuseppe, Venezia. Un patriziato per cinque secoli, Sommacampagna (VR), Cierre edizioni, 2015. For the not participants, it’s obligatory the lecture of one of this books Finlay, Robert, La vita politica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Milano, Jaca Book, 1982. Hunecke, Volker, Il patriziato veneziano alla fine della Repubblica 1646-1797. Demografia, famiglia, ménage, Roma, Jouvence, 1997.
Contents
Generally portrayed as a corrupt and cowardly class, squanderers of family fortunes, the Venetian patriciate has been the subject of a series of studies over the last few decades aimed at reevaluating its role and actions in the history of the Serenissima. The ruling class not only in the political and military fields, the patricians played a leading role in the economic fortune of Venice and the aim of the course will be to analyse its rise and decline between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
