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Inventing Past Narratives. Venice and the Adriatic Space (13th?15th Centuries)
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2024 Paperback, Pages: 108 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, 49 col. Language(s):English. ISBN 9788028004644.
By the late Middle Ages, Venice became the main stage of a national and international myth: while enhancing its historical role in the past, the city tried to demonstrate the legitimacy of its role in the present. In fact, for celebrating its triumph and erasing its weaknesses and defeats, Venice generated a rich repertoire of past narratives that were bringing together heterogeneous materials, by composing unconnected pieces and attributing new meanings to different histories or objects from other pasts. An ambitious goal had to be achieved: that of creating the impression of a unique and grandiose city whose roots were lost in a remote and magnificent past. The result is a patchwork that, through the longue dur e approach, has been articulated around both new and ancient stories, local and foreign myths, reconstructed or rediscovered objects and narratives. In order to investigate more precisely the trajectories of the Venetian past narratives, this volume intends to determine, through an interdisciplinary prism, which are the different strategies, objectives, and resources that have been exploited in the framework of these past narratives. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Ilaria Molteni & Valeria Russo Framing Venetian Past Narratives. An Epistemological Introduction Articles Francesca Gambino About the Time Charlemagne Invaded the Laguna and Venice Returned Frankish Fire with Bread Niccol Gensini ?Bons Mariniers? Between History and Prophecy. Venice, Venetians, and the Mediterranean Sea in the Prophecies de Merlin Giuseppina Brunetti Morte a Vwenezia. Per la morte di Dante: l?invenzione e i documenti Ruben Campini, Ivan Foletti, & Annalisa Moraschi Clash of Titans. Venturi, Kondakov, and the Staging of Late Medieval Venetian Painting in the History of Art History
From Civic History to Myth The ?Peace of Venice? in Texts and Images (1320?1370)
, Brepols, 2026 Paperback, 255 p., Illustrations:5 b/w, 50 col., Language(s):English. *New . ISBN 9788028007843.
In 1177, Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa are said to have reconciled in Venice, thanks to the mediation of Doge Sebastiano Ziani. Whether civic legend or historical truth, this episode ? the ?Peace of Venice? ? quickly became one of the city?s defining stories, woven into rituals, monuments, literature, and historiography. This book explores how this legend was retold, reimagined, and celebrated during the fourteenth century, when Venice faced new challenges at home and abroad. Chroniclers, poets, illuminators, and painters all reshaped the legend, creating a network of texts and images that reflected the city?s political ambitions. From Bonincontro dei Bovi?s Latin chronicle to its first volgarizzamento (Venezia, ASVe, Miscellanea codici I, s. v., 216), from San Nicol ?s lost fresco cycles to the richest illuminated manuscript (Venezia, Biblioteca del Museo Correr, 1497), from Castellano da Bassano?s Poema to the Doge?s Palace, the ?Peace of Venice? reveals the multilayered portrait of the Serenissima ? its artists, notaries, patrons, political figures, and diplomatic stakes. Bringing together literature, art history, and philology, this study traces how history gives rise to myth, and how myth, in turn, reinforces and reshapes history, evolving in step with the changing needs of the present.
